Tankers have been loaded with LPG in the Azov Sea port of Temryuk since December, but have been unable to proceed further south into the Black Sea.
As worldwide oil and gas flows have been altered due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, OPEC Secretary General Haitham Al Ghais said a slowdown in the U.S and Europe “concerns us more.”
The invasion of Ukraine convinced Europe to shift away from Russian oil and gas, energy official says at CERAWeek.
The cut is due in part to more resilient output from Russia than expected.
The New York Times reported on March 7 that new intelligence reviewed by U.S. officials had indicated that a pro-Ukrainian group sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines that carried natural gas from Russia to Europe.
Speaking during the CERAWeek by S&P Global conference, Chevron Chairman and CEO Mike Wirth said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will have long-lasting effects on global natural gas markets while labor, supplies remain challenging in the Permian.
Moscow does not see relations with the West improving enough in the foreseeable future for the Nord Stream gas pipelines to be needed.
Russia maintains that the Nord Stream pipelines, which were ruptured by blasts last September, were tampered with by western nations.
Tanker tracking consultancies Vortexa and Kpler estimated nearly 43 MMbbl of Russian crude oil are set to reach China by March.
Russian output is set to fall amidst Western sanctions curbing revenues and will divert to countries such as China and India that have not sanctioned Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.