#Dubai shadow gas carrier fleet

[just2bruce]

Dark fleets and Sanctions

We now have two worlds of international commerce, as a result of trade wars and the Ukraine-Russia conflict. As the Western world, principally the EU, UK and related countries and the US look to tighten sanctions on Russian oil exports, some shipowners are finding creative ways to get around the rules set by the West. One important escape hatch is to flag ships with a Flag State that doesn’t…

[ultrajaphunter]

Drone attacks on RuZZian oil and Gas infrastructure - #PlanB ,

after western interventions on curtailing RuZZia’s daily revenue to fund the illegal and murderous war.

Context: Targeting the interruption of this revenue by the EU and G7 countries have until now - acted through implementation of sanctions and the oil price cap on seaborne russian oil.

The price cap has become ineffective, as RuZZia has moved from a 90% reliance on EU owned and insured oil tankers -

to an opaque and nefarious shadow fleet of tankers to shift it’s oil -

and is realizing a sale value well above the price cap -

which means more money to fund the war in Ukraine.

In the absence of the United Nations intervening in the growth of the shadow fleet of dangerous, aged and uninsured vessels shifting RuZZian oil,

and in the absence of the enforcement of the price cap.

This is through the EU and G7’s failure to implement secondary sanctions on shadow companies and shippers, who easily manipulate the cost of cargo born by the vessels using miscellaneous transport costs by the shadow carriers and intermediaries and oil traders.

Traders have a new lawless hotspot - based in Dubai.

The United Nations under the incompetent leadership of Antonia Guterres (currently playing the Palestine card while the World edges towards all out war),

Ukraine has implemented plan B -

a new tactic to circumvent RuZZia’s oil and gas supplies and revenue -

by using targeted #drone strikes on critical infrastructure.

Recent Drone Strikes:

RuZZia energy infrastructure has been hit by 7 drone attacks and fires in the past month, adding to uncertainty in global oil and gas markets already rocked by the conflict in the Middle East.

* on Jan. 18

that Ukraine had tried and failed to target a RuZZian Baltic Sea oil terminal with a drone.

Ukraine said it had hit targets in St Petersburg with domestic-made drone. Mikhail Skigin, a co-owner of the St #Petersburg Oil Terminal, told RBC media that the air defence had thwarted a "monstrous catastrophe", opens new tab, which could lead to human losses and ecological damage to the Baltic Sea.

* on Jan. 19

Four oil tanks at a large storage facility in the town of Klintsy in RuZZia's western Bryansk region caught fire after the military brought down a Ukrainian strike drone, the regional governor said.

* on Jan 19

A fire tore through Ryazan oil refinery, RuZZia's third-largest,,

* on Jan. 21

RuZZian energy giant #Novatek, was forced to suspend some operations at the huge Baltic Sea fuel export terminal at Ust-luga as well as "technological processes" at a nearby fuel-producing complex due to a fire, started by what Ukrainian media said was a drone attack. RuZZia will likely cut exports of naphtha by some 127,500-136,000 barrels per day, or around a third of its total exports, after fires disrupted operations at refineries according to traders and LSEG ship-tracking data.

* on Jan. 26

Rosneft's Tuapse oil refinery 250km inside RuZZia from the frontline - halted oil processing and output following a fire.

* on Jan. 27

#Lukoil halted a unit at NORSI, RuZZia's fourth largest refinery, located near the city of Nizhny #Novgorod, some 430 km (270 miles) east of Moscow, after an "incident".

RuZZian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said that repair work would take at least a month or a month and a half.

* Jan. 29

RuZZian air defences thwarted a drone attack on the Slavneft #YANOS oil refinery in the city of Yaroslavl, northeast of Moscow, regional governor Mikhail Yevrayev said.

* on Saturday, Feb. 3

Two Ukrainian attack drones struck the largest 300,000 bpd oil refinery owned by LUKOIL in the country's south, in Volgograd, the latest in a series of long-range attacks on RuZZian oil facilities which has reduced RuZZia's exports of naphtha, a petrochemical feedstock.