There is always a market for a good cock-up theory. “This is a story about greed and small-time fraud colliding with incompetence and a lack of control over what goes in the pipe,” Bloomberg oil strategist Julian Lee wrote.
Deutsche Welle: Druzhba pipeline -The dark side of Russian oil
A discharge valve of oil pipeline Druzhba is seen behind a fence at a village of Romanovka in Mozyr's region of Belarus, Jan. 10, 2007.
