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● Tankers, pipes and export
Russian oil still finds its way to Germany, while the country seeks to replace Russian gas with Ukrainian biomethane. Following the attack on Ukraine, EU oil operations with Russia were prohibited. However, according to Süddeutsche Zeitung, although Russian oil can no longer be imported into Germany, the country's main customs office issued a directive in early September for "unimpeded" oil passage for Rosneft Deutschland. This directive effectively allowed the German division of Rosneft to import crude oil without additional checks for possible sanctions evasion. Germany supposedly exports oil from Kazakhstan, but the Kazakh oil field belongs to the Russian Lukoil company. At the same time, a few German organizations came up with the idea of accelerating the development of biogas exports from Ukraine to the EU to reduce the dependence on Russian gas, writes Deutsche Welle. There are calls for the immediate development of this industry despite the threat of shelling. analysts believe the enemy is not interested in biogas plants, which can help convince investors to invest, primarily because these installations’ construction is not expensive.
Polish company Orlen said that the government has given the company the local part of the Yamal–Europe export gas pipeline, including the Russian stake in it, the company said in a statement late on October 10. Russian gas giant Gazprom and Poland’s PGNiG own 48% each in EuRoPol Gas, the operator of the Polish branch of the Yamal–Europe pipeline. The asset was frozen previously like many other Russian assets in the country. “
Russia has scaled up export supplies of diesel fuel in a way that at least
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