An oil tanker loaded with Russian crude has been idling off the coast of
Ghana for more than two weeks after arriving, Bloomberg reports.
The
tanker christened Theseus arrived in Ghana’s territorial waters on
February 24, 2023, and was supposed to be discharged into storage tanks
at the Tema oil refinery (TOR).
Russia’s pool of buyers shrank
dramatically in December after the European Union banned imports from
the country, forcing traders to find new markets of Russian barrels.
This is the first Russian shipment to the West African country in at least four years, according to Bloomberg data.
The
tanker loaded about 600,000 barrels of crude from Russia’s Black Sea
port of Novorossiysk in late January, according to tanker tracking data
compiled by Bloomberg.
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