A tanker of Iranian oil for Belarus arrived in the port of Odessa. About it to Agency BelTA reported Deputy Director General of CJSC “Belarusian oil company” Sergey Mushroom.
“A tanker of Iranian oil by volume of 80 thousand tons arrived in the port of Odessa and have already unloaded”, — quotes the top Manager Onliner.by.
The first batch Yamskoy oil will go to Mozyr in the course of this week by rail.
Earlier, the national Iranian oil company (NIOC) reported that Beloil Polska (a subsidiary of BNK) entered into a purchase agreement Iran has 600 thousand Barr. oil.
Belarus forced to seek alternative sources of oil supply in the face of shrinking supplies of oil from Russia in connection with the unresolved dispute over gas debt of Minsk to Moscow. In particular, at the end of 2016 deliveries of Russian oil to the Republic decreased by 20%.
In addition, the Ministry of energy of the Russian Federation in his letter recommended a number of Russian oil companies with a network of filling stations in Belarus, to limit delivery of large shipments of diesel fuel to the local market.
