Complaints About Russian Crude Quality Mount

摘要

More European consumers of Russian crude oil barrels complained on Tuesday about a sudden deterioration in the quality of the Russian Urals export blend over the weekend that is now being felt in their part of the Druzhba pipeline. Poland’s PNK Orlen said that it received information that poor-quality Russian crude has begun entering the country at the border with Belarus, which complained late last week about a serious deterioration in the quality of Urals crude via the Druzhba pipeline (IOD Apr.23’19).