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Russian Crude Exports Surge into Mid-April

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Russia’s seaborne crude exports rose to an 11-month high in the second week of April according to Bloomberg vessel tracking.

  • Russia’s seaborne crude flows in the week to April 14 jumped by 560,000 bpd to 3.95 million, reaching the highest level since May 2023. The four-week average also jumped, up by about 250,000bpd to 3.66mn bpd, the highest since June.
  • Flows from Primorsk, Ust-Luga, Novorossiysk and Kozmino were close to historical highs.
  • The higher exports potentially indicate that lower volumes are able to be processed domestically by Russian refineries after repeated Ukrainian drone attacks in March and are ending up on export markets instead.
  • Russia said it would cut crude exports during April by 121,000bpd from their average May-June level as part of the wider OPEC+ initiative. Exports in the first three months of the year were narrowly over that level by 16,000 bpd.



Source: Bloomberg

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