Moscow’s transfer comes a day after the Warsaw authorities delivered its first Leopard tanks to Ukraine.
Russia has halted oil provides to Poland through the Druzhba pipeline, the chief govt of Polish refiner PKN Orlen says, including that the corporate would faucet different sources to plug the hole.
The provision halt through the pipeline – exempted from EU sanctions imposed on Russia following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine – got here a day after Poland delivered its first Leopard tanks to Ukraine.
“We’re successfully securing provides. Russia has halted provides to Poland, for which we’re ready. Solely 10 % of crude oil has been coming from Russia and we’ll exchange it with oil from different sources,” PKN Orlen Chief Govt Daniel Obajtek wrote on Twitter.
The corporate mentioned it might absolutely provide its refineries through sea and that the halt in pipeline provides wouldn’t have an effect on deliveries of petrol and diesel to its purchasers.
As of February, after a contract with Russia’s Rosneft expired, Orlen has been getting oil below a take care of Russia’s oil and pure gasoline firm Tatneft.
Tatneft and Russian oil pipeline monopoly Transneft didn’t instantly make statements on the problem.
The provision halt got here after US President Joe Biden visited Warsaw and Kyiv this week in a present of assist for Ukraine a yr after the invasion.
On Friday, the European Union agreed on a tenth package deal of sanctions on Russia.
Tanks delivered
Poland delivered 4 Leopard tanks to Ukraine already and is ready to ship extra shortly, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki mentioned on Friday.
“Poland and Europe stand by your facet. We will certainly not depart you, we’ll assist Ukraine till full victory over Russia,” Morawiecki mentioned throughout a go to to Kyiv, standing subsequent to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Following the invasion of Ukraine and earlier than the EU embargoed seaborne provides from Russia, Orlen stopped shopping for Russian oil and fuels through the ocean.
It mentioned the corporate’s provide portfolio now contains oil from Western Africa, the Mediterranean, the Gulf and the Gulf of Mexico. It additionally has a provide contract with Saudi Aramco as of 2022.
Seaborne provides attain Poland through Naftoport, an oil terminal in Gdansk on the Baltic Sea. It will probably obtain 36 million tonnes of oil yearly, topping volumes that Polish refineries can course of. It’s partly used to provide oil to refineries in jap Germany which might be linked to Druzhba.
