Reuters: Belarus Quadruples Gasoline Exports To Russia

The Russian Federation is facing a serious fuel shortage.

Gasoline exports from Belarus to Russia by rail quadrupled in September compared to the previous month. The reason was a fuel shortage in Russia due to Ukrainian attacks on its energy infrastructure.

This was reported by Reuters.

The agency notes that several Russian regions have imposed rationing and temporarily frozen fuel prices in recent weeks due to shortages of popular types of gasoline resulting from drone strikes.

In addition, Moscow has restricted gasoline and diesel exports. Russia also increased fuel imports from Belarus last year to cover the shortages.

Reuters sources said gasoline shipments by rail from Belarusian refineries to Russia's domestic market rose to 40,000 metric tons, or 14,500 bpd, last month. Diesel shipments in September totaled 33,000 tons.

At the same time, transit of gasoline from Belarus for further export through Russian ports rose about 1 percent to 140,000 tons last month.

Belarus has been using Russian ports to transship its oil products since March 2021 under a cooperation agreement signed between Moscow and Minsk.

Sources and Reuters calculations indicate that such transshipments fell nearly 40 percent year-on-year to 1.17 million tons in January-September due to a decline in oil refining.

The agency notes that Belarus' two refineries, Naftan and Mozyr, have an annual capacity of 12 million tons each, or about 240,000 barrels per day. But they usually produce about 9 million tons a year, or about 180,000 bpd.

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