19.04.2023 - 16:57 [ Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) ]

The Laundromat: How the price cap coalition whitewashes Russian oil in third countries

Well into the second year of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the EU, most of the G7 countries, and Australia have cracked down on their imports of Russian crude oil and oil products. At the same time, these countries, which are all part of the price-cap coalition whose objective is to limit Russia’s revenues from fossil fuel exports, have increased imports of refined oil products by leaps and bounds from the countries that have become the largest importers of Russian crude oil.