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“The European Council agrees that the sixth package of sanctions against Russia will cover crude oil, as well as petroleum products, delivered from Russia into Member States, with a temporary exception for crude oil delivered by pipeline…. The European Council will revert to the issue of the temporary exception for crude oil delivered by pipeline as soon as possible”. https://www.consilium.europa.eu/media/56562/2022-05-30-31-euco-conclusions.pdf Hungary slowed down these sanctions, as they wanted an exemption, which is wrong and unfair. The European Council was forced to give the exemption to get the sanctions passed.

“Europe is a key destination for Russia’s energy exports
March 14, 2022

Selected energy exports from Russia (2021) Source: Graph by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, based on Russia’s export statistics and partner country import statistics published by Global Trade Tracker, Figure data https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/images/2022.03.14/figure1_data.xlsx

In 2021, Russia was the largest natural gas-exporting country in the world, the second-largest crude oil and condensates-exporting country after Saudi Arabia, and the third-largest coal-exporting country behind Indonesia and Australia. Although OECD Europe received most of Russia’s crude oil and natural gas exports last year, countries in Asia and the Oceania region received most of Russia’s coal exports.


Source: Graph by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, based on Russia’s export statistics and partner country import statistics published by Global Trade Tracker, Figure data https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/images/2022.03.14/figure2_data.xlsx

Of the 10.1 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil and condensate that Russia produced in 2021, Russia exported more than 45%, or 4.7 million b/d. The majority of Russia’s crude oil and condensate exports went to OECD Europe, which received almost half of Russia’s total exports. However, at a country level, China imported the largest volume of Russia’s crude oil and condensate exports in 2021.

According to Russia’s export statistics and partner country import statistics published by Global Trade Tracker, China received nearly one-third, or 1.4 million b/d, of Russia’s crude oil and condensate exports. The Netherlands and Germany combined received about one-fourth, or 1.1 million b/d, of Russia’s crude oil and condensate exports. Russia exported about 199,000 b/d of crude oil to the United States in 2021, around 4% of Russia’s crude oil exports for that year.


Source: Graph by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, based on Russia’s export statistics and partner country import statistics published by Global Trade Tracker, Figure data https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/images/2022.03.14/figure3_data.xlsx

Last year, Russia also exported 8.9 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of liquefied and piped natural gas, 36% of the 24.8 Tcf of natural gas it produced. In 2021, 84% of Russia’s exported natural gas arrived at its destination country by pipeline, and the rest was shipped as liquefied natural gas (LNG). Similar to crude oil and condensates exports, OECD Europe was the largest regional importer of Russia’s natural gas, accounting for nearly 75% of Russia’s total natural gas exports. Germany, Turkey, Italy, Belarus, and France received most of that natural gas. China and Japan are among the top 10 destinations, together accounting for approximately 10%, or 882 billion cubic feet, of Russia’s natural gas exports.


Source: Graph by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, based on Russia’s export statistics and partner country import statistics published by Global Trade Tracker, Figure data https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/images/2022.03.14/figure4_data.xlsx

Russia exported more than half of the coal the country produced in 2021. Russia’s coal exports in 2021 increased by 7% to 262 million short tons (MMst). China imported nearly 25%, or 63 MMst, while South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan together received about 22% of Russia’s coal exports. One-third of Russia’s coal exports were sent to OECD Europe. Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey, and Poland combined received 24% of all Russia’s coal exports in 2021. Thermal coal, often used for power generation, accounted for 90% of Russia’s coal exports.
Principal contributors: Hilary Hooper, Justine Barden, Tejasvi Raghuveer
Tags: international, coal, natural gas, exports/imports, liquid fuels, Europe, crude oil, Russia, oil/petroleum” https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=51618

As far as natural gas goes, it appears complicated: Gazprom cut off the Netherlands (GasTerra). It will soon cut off Danish Orsted and Shell Energy (Germany), because they refuse to pay in rubles. The Gazprom contracts are for euros. Gazprom already cut off gas for companies in Bulgaria, Poland and Finland. See: “Gazprom widens gas cuts after EU brings in oil ban”, Tuesday, 31 May 2022. https://www.cityam.com/gazprom-widens-gas-cuts-after-eu-brings-in-oil-ban “Russia puts sanctions on Gazprom units in Europe and U.S., part owner of pipeline”, May 11, 2022, states that Putin’s May 3rd “decree explicitly forbids the export of products and raw materials to people and entities on the list…these comprised Polish pipeline owner EuRoPol Gaz, Gazprom Germania, and 29 Gazprom Germania subsidiaries in Switzerland, Hungary, Britain, France, Bulgaria, the Benelux region, the United States, Switzerland, Romania and Singapore…” See: https://www.reuters.com/business/russia-sanctions-gazprom-germania-units-owner-polish-part-yamal-europe-pipeline-2022-05-11/
Russia appears to be willing to shoot itself out of spite.


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