Russia has obtained its first gasoline cargo from India as Ukrainian assaults knock out refining capability and a second wave of gas shortages spreads throughout a minimum of 10 Russian areas, Reuters reported on Monday.
The roughly 68,000-metric-ton cargo was produced by Nayara Power at its Vadinar refinery in western India and delivered to Russia’s Arctic port of Vitino after a ship-to-ship switch at Port Mentioned, Egypt. Two extra gasoline cargoes from India are anticipated to succeed in Russia within the coming weeks.
Russia’s gasoline shortages have now led filling stations in a minimum of 10 areas to impose gross sales restrictions or run in need of some grades of gas, with shortages now reaching the Moscow area. Gasoline gross sales on the St. Petersburg trade have fallen by a mean 20% because the starting of August.
Russia was already utilizing gasoline imports from Belarus to plug home provide gaps. It’s now bringing gasoline and diesel by sea from Asia as refinery outages minimize the amount of gas out there contained in the nation.
Ukraine has spent the summer time hammering Russia’s refining system. The most recent main casualty is the 120,000-barrel-per-day Orsk refinery, which might stay offline for so long as six months after an August 11 Ukrainian assault. The shutdown has tightened gas provides throughout Russia’s Urals area.
Within the meantime, Russia can be exporting much less gas. Seaborne petroleum-product exports fell 33.3% in July from June and 54.7% from July 2025, in line with Reuters calculations based mostly on LSEG information, as refinery outages lowered out there cargoes.
Nayara’s Vadinar refinery is a significant purchaser of Russian crude, though Reuters couldn’t set up whether or not Russian oil was used to make the gasoline delivered to Vitino.
Ukraine continues to launch assaults deeper inside Russia. At the very least six individuals have been killed and 4 wounded Monday when Ukrainian rockets struck the village of Koloskovo in Russia’s Belgorod area, in line with The Moscow Times. Russia’s Protection Ministry stated one other 205 Ukrainian drones have been intercepted over Russian territory and occupied Crimea in a single day.
By Charles Kennedy for Oilprice.com
