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Jaffe: European Refiners and Traders Refuse Russian Oil Cargoes

Amy Myers Jaffe · Russia’s war hits energy markets hard · Mar 8, 2022 · at 10:50

Amy Myers Jaffe, Managing Director of the Climate Policy Lab at Tufts Fletcher School, explains the immediate self-sanctioning response in global energy markets following Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

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“I think the biggest, biggest indicator we're seeing right now is that European refiners and even global trading companies are refusing to take Russian cargoes. And so you're seeing cargoes of oil that were planning to leave Russia or have left Russia, and they cannot find a country or a company to buy them.”

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The claim, plainly

European refiners and global trading companies are refusing to buy Russian oil cargoes following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Assessment

Contemporaneous corporate disclosures and commodity market reporting confirm that in late February and early March 2022, multiple major European refiners (including Neste, Preem, BP, Shell, TotalEnergies, Eni, Repsol, and Equinor) and major international commodity trading houses (including Glencore, Trafigura, and Vitol) engaged in self-sanctioning by refusing new spot purchases of Russian seaborne crude oil. Commodity tracking data from S&P Global Commodity Insights, Bloomberg, and the IEA documented unprecedented discounts on Urals crude as cargoes struggled to find European buyers.

Major European refiners including Neste, Preem, Shell, BP, TotalEnergies, Eni, and Repsol publicly halted or froze new spot purchases of Russian crude oil between late February and March 8, 2022.
Global trading houses Glencore, Vitol, and Trafigura announced policies refusing new spot commodity transactions or scaling back long-term contract offtakes of Russian crude in early March 2022.
S&P Global Commodity Insights and Bloomberg reported that Russian Urals crude traded at historic discounts of $20 to $30+ per barrel below Brent due to widespread European buyer boycotts of tender offerings.

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[1] europa.eu [2] bloomberg.com [3] substack.com [4] europa.eu [5] csis.org [6] neste.com [7] business-humanrights.org [8] aa.com.tr

refiners refuse Russian oil "March 2022" Reuters OR Bloomberg European refiners Russian oil self sanctioning March 2022 Reuters Bloomberg "self-sanctioning" Russian crude "March 2022" Reuters OR Bloomberg OR Platts Neste Preem TotalEnergies BP Shell Russian crude March 2022 "Russian oil" "self-sanction" refiners "March 2022" Trafigura Glencore Russian crude oil self sanctioning March 2022 oil traders refiners refusing Russian crude cargoes early March 2022 S&P Global Platts "Urals" discount record "March 2022" refiners buyers

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