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Czech oil refiner Unipetrol has stopped taking oil from the Druzhba pipeline due to chloride contamination detected at the Ukraine-Slovakia border, Czech officials said on Monday, but the Slovak pipeline operator denied contamination had been found.

Czech oil refiner Unipetrol has stopped taking oil from the Druzhba pipeline from Russia due to chloride contamination, a Czech official said on Monday.

Czech oil refiner Unipetrol, a unit of Poland's PKN Orlen, has stopped taking oil from the Druzhba pipeline from Russia due to chloride contamination, the chief of Czech state strategic reserves said on Twitter on Monday.

Head of the Czech state reserves body Mr Pavel Svagr told CTK news agency that clean Russian oil should reach Czech refiner Unipetrol's Litvinov plant around May 27

CTK news agency quoted Czech’s Industry Minister Mr Karel Havlicek as saying that Czech government may consider releasing more oil from its reserves for Unipetrol refineries hit by lost shipments from Russia.

McDermott International Inc has announced a sizeable contract award from Unipetrol RPA for engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for its refinery in Litvinov, Czech Republic.