[Combat] Moscow Oil Refinery, continued.

LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz · edit-2 3 months ago

[Combat] Moscow Oil Refinery, continued.

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tal@lemmy.today · 3 months ago

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russia-import-gasoline-by-sea-shortage-looms-sources-say-2026-06-17/

Russia to import gasoline by sea as shortage looms, sources say

June 17, 2026 6:08 AM PDT

In a rare move for one of the world’s largest exporters of oil and refined products, Russia is expected to receive a cargo of gasoline via one of its western ports in June, the sources said.

Russia considered importing ⁠fuel by sea last year, another source said, but ultimately domestic supply was sufficient.

But supplies this year have been constrained by months of Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian refineries, pipelines and fuel storage facilities as it has sought to curb Moscow’s ability to finance its war effort.

One of them said seaborne imports could ⁠also be only a temporary measure and were unlikely to provide significant volumes because of logistical issues and high prices.

According to industry sources, the country exported nearly 5 million metric tons of gasoline last year, or about 117,000 barrels per day.

tal@lemmy.today · edit-2 3 months ago

It doesn’t sound like they have the EVs or charging infrastructure to do much with EVs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_Russia

As of July 2022, there were around 18,700 electric vehicles in Russia, equivalent to 0.04% of all cars in the country.

Sounds like a year ago, there were about three times that, so maybe up to 0.12%.

https://en.iz.ru/en/1940076/2025-08-20/number-electric-vehicles-russia-has-been-calculated

As of the beginning of July, there were 65.2 thousand electric vehicles in Russia. Sergey Tselikov, director of the Autostat analytical agency, told about this in his Telegram channel.

So in addition to the financial losses, I assume that’s going to cause logistical problems.

EDIT: It also doesn’t sound like there are a whole lot of diesel vehicles, though more than EVs. I understand that diesel is presently less constrained than gasoline.

https://m.eng.autostat.ru/news/24768/

The share of petrol cars increased slightly over the year, from 93.1% to 95.4%. Concurrently, the share of diesel cars declined almost fourfold, from 3.9% in May 2023 to the current 1%. This is attributed to the decline in car sales in the traditional premium segment, which are mostly powered by diesel.