An unresolved row over Russian oil supplies to Belarus escalated again with Moscow reducing flows to Belarusian refineries, traders said on 15 January, Reuters reported. Traders said Russia’s pipeline monopoly Transneft had told oil firms to re-route one third of flows scheduled for Belarusian refineries to the Polish Baltic port of Gdansk, which is on the same pipeline as Belarus but further west. Meanwhile, Germany, Poland and three other European countries that receive Russian oil supplies via the Druzhba pipeline across Belarus can weather a potential disruption, the International Energy Agency said. Although there is no imminent threat of tighter European crude supplies, given what is as stake for Belarus, a resolution may take some time to achieve, the IEA said in a report on 15 January. The five European countries, which include Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, have more than three months of emergency stocks and alternative supply routes, the IEA said. Poland received 385,000 barrels a day, or 93 percent of its oil imports last year, through Druzhba’s northern branch, while Germany got from 300,000 to 400,000 barrels a day, or as much as 20 percent of its imports, via the link, the IEA said.