Moscow oil traffic off the Indian Ocean, away from trade routes. Repubblica resumes an investigation by the WSJ where it is told how Moscow circumvents the sanctions with the complicity of the large global oil companies.
The oil companies they get 49 percent of their need for crude oil from Moscow companies. To avoid controls, it is sufficient to declare only the origin of the majority quota. In fact, two tankers of different nationalities - one is Russian - meet in the open sea and transship all the crude oil to that one flying the non-Russian flag.
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Western sanctions are so systematically duped by Vladimir Putin that he cannot give up the revenues of theoil to continue supporting the war effort in Ukraine.
The fleet of state company Sovcomflot operates in countries that have not decreed the embargo, such as China e India. THE'Urals - Russian export oil, a blend of heavy oil from the Urals and Volga with light oil from West Siberia – arrives at Rotterdam e Antwerp via a ghost fleet.
The company of Rystad energy consultancy, writes Repubblica, published a report according to which Russia added 103 tankers in 2022 thanks to purchases and the reallocation of ships that served Iran and Venezuela, two countries - not surprisingly - under a Western oil embargo. Vessels already registered under flags of convenience with companies based in Dubai and Hong Kong.
Many routes are suspicious. One of these is that of Kazakhstan which oddly enough will supply about 2023 million tons of oil to Germany in 1,5, with a possible increase in the future to 7 million tons. The Kazakh government will use infrastructure that passes through Russian territory, controlled by Moscow companies. The Kazakhstan is allied with Putin and is part of the Commonwealth of Independent States together with Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
La China, last year, increased the amount of crude oil imported from Moscow by 19%. Then there is theIndia which regularly imports Russian oil, managing to secure long-term supplies at discounted prices. According to numbers provided by Kepler, India's crude oil imports rose from $8 billion to $2022 billion in the last 2,5 months of 21,8, making it the second largest importer of Russian crude after China.