Global traders Gunvor, Trafigura and Vitol have won tenders to pick up oil products produced by Russia’s Antipinsky refinery from Baltic Sea ports, industry sources said on Friday.
The sources told Reuters the refinery’s owner Rusinvest had sold up to 500,000 tonnes of naphtha to Gunvor for loading from Ust-Luga between October 2021 and September 2022.
The company sold up to 1.4 million tonnes of diesel to Vitol and Trafigura for loadings from Primorsk between October 2021 and March 2022.
Rusinvest and Trafigura did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Vitol and Gunvor declined to comment.
Source: Reuters (Reporting by Olga Yagova and Natalia Chumakova; Writing by Vladimir Soldatkin; Editing by Edmund Blair)