Options are already being tested.
There are several ways to sell Russian oil on the world market under Western sanctions. This was reported by the Russian media with reference to the director of the Energy Development Fund Sergei Pikin.
First, the sale of oil by changing the flag of the tanker.
“There are no tankers in Russia,” he said. , mixing Russian oil with oil of other grades.
According to the expert, a clear example of effective circumvention of sanctions against Russian oil showed one of the international oil giants Shell, which buys raw materials from Russia and mixes with oil of other grades, obtaining the notorious “Latvian mixture”. Probably one of the keys to solving the problem is the emergence of analogues, such as “Turkish mixture”.
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