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Russia Crude Exports Fall Below Target Amid Port Halts

OIL

Russia’s four week average seaborne crude exports fell by about 250kb/d last week to about 3.09mb/d according to Bloomberg and about 200kbpd below Russia’s Q1 pledged target.

  • The weekly average fell by about 120kb/d to an eight week low of 2.8mb/d.
  • Flows from the key Pacific port of Kozmino were halted for five days by high winds and freezing temperatures and the Baltic port of Ust-Luga had four days of maintenance. Primorsk however saw a record equalling 11 tankers loaded.
  • Loadings at Ust-Luga had previously been interrupted by a Ukrainian drone strike on a nearby processing plant.
  • Russian crude shipping to Asian buyers from western ports continues to pass through the Red Sea, despite ongoing Yemen-based Houthi attacks.
  • Russia is still struggling to sell its Sokol crude with twenty cargoes on tankers that appear to be going nowhere.


Source: Bloomberg

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