Russian fleet en route to US to help battle fuel crisis

By
Jim W. Dean and Gordon Duff
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Sourced from state funded Russian media:

RT: The US is reportedly getting ready to receive a bulk shipment of diesel from energy-rich Russia as Washington strives to cool down the fuel’s retail price, which has recently hit its highest level since 2014.

Some two million barrels of Russian diesel carried by four tankers are currently heading to the east coast of the US, according to data from energy cargo-tracking agency Vortexa, as quoted by Bloomberg.

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The delivery, which is expected to arrive in New York and New Haven, Connecticut, as soon as next week, is reportedly the most substantial in recent years, based on data going back to 2018.



Vortexa analysts highlighted that Russian producers have been ramping up production of a diesel that is dependent on a feedstock extracted from costly natural gas. Flows from the Russian Baltic port of Primorsk are reportedly expected to reach their highest level since at least 2016.

“Russia is better positioned to supply diesel than other refiners in Europe because of its access to cheap natural gas,” Clay Seigle, a managing director for Vortexa in Houston told the agency.

“It’s very rare we’d see volumes this large coming to the East Coast,” the expert added.

Retail prices for diesel in the US East Coast have soared to being the costliest in seven years, with distillate inventories in the region down by nearly a third from levels recorded earlier this year. Demand for the fuel is expected to further grow as logistics companies are intensively working to catch up on backlogs that built up due to the coronavirus pandemic.

 

 

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2 COMMENTS

  1. Yes, Europe, you are not allowed to purchase more ever-cheaper Russian gas. We will do every last trick to prevent NS2 coming online. You should all be buying American LNG if you don’t want to freeze or have blackouts. By the way, don’t pay any attention to us buying cheap Russian diesel to keep our prices down, because that’s an all different story. Offshore…Iran confiscated that smuggling ship in their own waters, not the med.

  2. So the Russians are bringing diesel to U.S. why…?? And Iran arrests ship in Med for smuggling same thing. What do these two seemingly unrelated things tell us..???

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