Russia’s oil proceeds to the state budget increased by almost a third last year to the highest since at least 2018, spurred by higher crude prices as the nation adapted to international sanctions.
Serbia can pay Gazprom Neft PJSC and Gazprom PJSC to exit the Balkan country’s only refiner in order to preserve local fuel production after it became ensnared in new US sanctions on Russia’s oil industry.
The Foreign Ministry in Chisinau said it “strongly refutes the dangerous disinformation spread by the embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Moldova, which seeks to deflect responsibility for a crisis that Moscow itself has created.”
Even as Russian troops and tanks moved into Ukraine in February 2022, Russian natural gas kept flowing through the country’s pipeline network — set up when Ukraine and Russia were both part of the Soviet Union — to Europe, under a five-year agreement.
European countries are ramping up sanctions pressure on Russia as they look to reduce Vladimir Putin’s oil revenues that fund the war in Ukraine.
Dozens of kilometers of Black Sea coastline in Russia’s Krasnodar region have been covered in heavy fuel oil, local authorities and residents reported on December 17, after two oil tankers were heavily damaged during a storm in the Kerch Strait.
Denmark warned that Russia’s navy may start escorting the so-called shadow fleet tankers through Danish straits to escalate provocations against NATO countries.
Russian crude oil exports by sea have dropped by 11% from a recent high in October, due to maintenance at the Baltic port of Primorsk, pressure for Russia to align with its OPEC+ quota, and increased sanctions pressure.
The financial curbs on oil trading firms, 2Rivers DMCC and 2Rivers Pte Ltd. will clamp down on Russia’s oil revenues and drain President Vladimir Putin’s “war chest,” the UK government said in a statement on Tuesday. The two firms were “key lynchpins in enabling the trading of Putin’s precious oil,” it said.
There’s been a resurgence of tankers that are part of the mainstream fleet loading Russian crude after oil slipped closer to price-cap compliant levels, according to BRS Shipbrokers. The share of regular ships taking Russian crude over recent weeks has climbed by about 2%, BRS said in a note dated Dec. 16. Should oil prices […]