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Germany has acknowledged the possibility of oil products shortages in some regions to be caused by the sanctions against Russian energy, the Financial Times reports. The Eastern regions of Germany have several large refineries that depend on Russian oil. One of them – a refinery in the city of Schwedt – is a key supplier of gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, and fuel oil for the regional economy, and services many key local consumers, including the international airport of Berlin, the paper said.
Poland plans to buy Russian oil in 2023 as seen from its applications to Russian oil pipeline monopoly Transneft, the company’s Vice President Sergei Andronov told Kommersant business daily on November 16. “Besides applications of the consumers, who use the transportation route of the southern string of the Druzhba pipeline to Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic through Ukraine, I would also like to underline that there are applications from Poland via Belarus for 2023,” he said. According to Kommersant’s sources, Poland’s oil company Orlen has sent to Transneft application for transit of 3mn tonnes of Russian oil annually.
Russia has reaped a huge windfall from the rise in oil prices. But there's more to it than that. Greek-owned oil tankers shifted to help Russia export its oil, so that total tanker capacity since March is up 13% compared to 2019.
The UK continues to buy Russian oil with documents naming other countries as importers, the Sunday Times reported on November 20. At least 39 tankers with Russian oil worth more than 200mn British pounds arrived in
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