Russia boosts railway gasoline exports by a quarter in January–May
Russia increased gasoline exports by railway by a quarter year-on-year between January and May to around 2.51 MM tonnes (t) on an easing fuel embargo, two market sources said and calculations showed.
Russia imposed a ban on gasoline exports from March 2024 to offset excessive demand for petroleum products and to stabilize prices in the domestic market.
Exceptions were made for fuel supplied under inter-governmental agreements, including with members of the Moscow-led Eurasian Economic Union.
In November, the government lifted a fuel embargo for gasoline exports supplied by producers, but extended the restrictions for other exporters, such as independent traders and re-sellers.
In addition, several Russian refineries were hit last year by drone attacks, including major gasoline producer Lukoil's oil refinery in Nizhny Novgorod, leading to a fall in fuel production and exports.
The other major gasoline producers in Russia are Gazprom Neft's Omsk refinery and Rosneft's Ryazan refinery.
According to calculations based on data from sources, the Baltic port of Ust-Luga was the main destination for Russian gasoline export supplies so far in 2025, which rose nearly 85% year-on-year between January and May to 0.72 MMt.
Gasoline exports from Russian refineries to the Baltic port of Vysotsk almost doubled year-on-year in the first five months of 2025 to around 150,000 t, while fuel supplies to Mongolia fell 17% to 304,000 t, data from market sources showed.
Since an EU embargo on imports of Russian oil products went into effect in February 2023, Russia has diverted its gasoline seaborne export supplies to countries in Africa and Asia, Turkey and Brazil.
In 2024, Russia produced in total around 43.1 MMt of gasoline and exported nearly 4.4 MMt, according to the market sources.
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