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Russian Crude Exports Decline in Week Following Sanctions

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Russian seaborne crude exports fell in the first full week following sanctions on Dec 5 according to Bloomberg vessel tracking data.

  • Some of the decline was due to a four day outage halting Urals exports from the port of Primorsk with cargo scheduling and weather also possibly impacting the weekly data.
  • Vessel tracking suggests a decline in exports from Kozimo in a sign that oil tanker availability to transport Russian crude may be limited.
  • The four week average exports from Russia have decline by 266kbpd. Shipments to Europe have almost completely stopped with the remaining flows heading to Bulgaria. Exports to China, India and Turkey also declined down to 2.53mbpd.


Source: Bloomberg

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