Russia’s pipeline operator Transneft has cut crude intake into its system by roughly 250,000 barrels per day after damage at the Kaleykino pumping station in Tatarstan, according to Reuters sources. Kaleykino is a key blending and dispatch hub that can pump about 1 million bpd and feeds crude into the Druzhba pipeline network as well as export routes to Primorsk on the Baltic and Novorossiisk on the Black Sea. It is also where different crude streams are mixed into the Urals export grade. The Druzhba system alone has capacity of about 1.4…