The price of a barrel of Urals, the Russian export oil procured from Baltic Sea ports, rose to $55 a barrel in early March. Wrote Reuters agency.
According to the publication, the cost has increased due to the increase in the number of people who want to transport Russian oil. Chinese VLCC-class supertankers and Greek ships joined the shadow tanker fleet, which was brought together by Russia before the ceiling price was applied.
In these cases, there is no violation of the sanctions regime, since Russian oil is supplied at the permissible price – up to $ 60 per barrel.
The price increase also affected interruption As of March 1, oil production increased by 500 thousand barrels.
At the beginning of March 1, Pavel Sorokin, First Deputy Minister of Energy of Russia declarationThe corresponding principle, that Moscow does not intend to sell oil at any price just for the sake of volume, was laid out in the reduction of the country’s production in March.
Bloomberg in the first half of January reported At half the price of the North Sea reference brand Brent in the sale of the Urals – from $ 38 per barrel.
Source: Gazeta
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