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Russian Oil Product Exports Slip 21% in Feb m-o-m as Sanctions Bite

OIL PRODUCTS

Overall oil product flows out of Russia dipped by 21% in Feb m-o-m according to S&P vessel tracking as western sanctions took hold.

  • Russia-origin seaborne oil product exports averaged 2.13mn b/d in February, a 21% drop from recently elevated levels of around 2.7mn b/d in January and 24% below average pre-war levels.
  • Russian diesel exports dropped by more than 100,000 b/d in February to 830,000 b/d while fuel oil exports fell by some 170,000 b/d on the month to 614,000 b/d.
  • The data shows that Europe's flows of Russian fuel have plunged from around 1.5mn b/d in December to less than 500,000 b/d in February. Meanwhile, African buyers in Morocco, Algeria, Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia, Ghana, and Egypt have doubled their Russian fuel imports to around 440,000 b/d.
  • To help plug the gap in Europe, regional refiners and fuel retailers continue to lean on alternative diesel supplies from the Middle East, Turkey and the US, while dipping into stocks in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp refining hub built up ahead of the embargo.


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