/Reuters Agency
The Russian port of Tuapse, on the Black Sea, resumed exports of oil products after a two-week suspension, which was caused by Ukrainian drone attacks, while the local refinery resumed processing crude, according to two industry sources and LSEG data.
According to the informants and ship tracking, the Sandhya tanker, flagged in Gambia, departed from Tuapse on November 17 with about 30,000 metric tons of gasoil and headed towards the Suez Canal.
Another vessel, the Satna, flagged in Malawi, loaded around 30,000 tons of gasoil at the Tuapse terminal on November 18.
The fuel loaded onto these two ships had been refined in Tuapse before crude processing was stopped and was stored in tanks, according to traders.
The sources also indicated that the Tuapse refinery, controlled by Rosneft and which exports most of its production, resumed crude processing on November 21.
The export-oriented Tuapse plant, with a processing capacity of 240,000 barrels of oil per day, produces naphtha, fuel oil, vacuum gasoil, and high-sulfur diesel.
