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Bloomberg
06-07-2025
- Bloomberg
Russia Reports Ammonia Leak at Leningrad's Ust-Luga Seaport
Russia reported an ammonia leak at the Ust-Luga seaport in the Leningrad region that authorities said occurred during loading operations on the LPG tanker Eco Wizard. The terminal's emergency services are working to contain the incident, the Transportation Ministry said in the statement on Telegram on Sunday.
Al Arabiya
06-07-2025
- General
- Al Arabiya
Russian authorities tackle ammonia leak at Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga
Emergency services have been tackling a leak of liquid ammonia from a tanker at the Russian Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga, the transport ministry said on Sunday. The ministry said the leak, which it described as 'insignificant,' from the ECO WIZARD tanker happened earlier in the day during loading operations. The crew of 23 was evacuated and no one was injured, the ministry added. According to LSEG data, the tanker, under the Marshall Islands flag, is moored at Ust-Luga's EuroChem terminal. The vessel is managed by the Athens-registered Brave Maritime Corporation.
Russia Today
30-06-2025
- Business
- Russia Today
Oil tanker explodes off Libyan coast after calling at Russian ports
An oil tanker carrying around a million barrels of crude has exploded off the coast of Libya. No injuries or pollution have been reported, and the cause of the blast remains unclear. The Marshall Islands-flagged tanker Vilamoura had departed Libya's Zuetina port and was en route to Gibraltar when the explosion occurred on June 27, followed by flooding in the engine room that left the vessel adrift, a spokesperson for operator TMS Tankers told the media on Monday. It is the latest in a string of unexplained blasts involving oil tankers that had recently visited Russian ports, Bloomberg noted. According to vessel-tracking data, the Vilamoura called at Russia's Ust-Luga oil terminal in early April and the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) facility near Novorossiysk in May – both of which primarily handle Kazakh-origin barrels. Four other tankers have suffered similar fates since the start of the year, all of which had previously called at Russian oil ports, maritime risk consultancy Vanguard Tech told Bloomberg. The incidents come amid heightened scrutiny of maritime traffic linked to Russia, as Western sanctions on Moscow's oil exports have reshaped global shipping routes. The EU and US have accused Russia and its trading partners of using a 'shadow fleet' of tankers operating outside Western insurance rules to bypass the sanctions. Russia has repeatedly denounced the restrictions against its shipping sector as illegal. Explosion Reported on Crude Tanker Off the Coast of Libya #CoastalSecurity#ShippingNews#EnvironmentalImpact#LibyaCoast#EnergyIndustryhttps:// In response to the blasts, some shipowners have reportedly begun inspecting hulls for possible mines using divers and underwater vehicles. Bloomberg noted that Ukraine has repeatedly targeted Russia's energy infrastructure – including oil depots and a gas metering station – since the escalation of the conflict with Moscow. In February, Ukrainian drones struck the Kropotkinskaya oil pumping station in southern Russia, operated by the Caspian Pipeline Consortium. The CPC serves as a key export route, handling around 80% of Kazakhstan's crude on the global market. Moscow has condemned the attacks as violations of Ukraine's ceasefire commitments, and accused Kiev of attempting to derail US peace efforts. Built in 2011, the Vilamoura has a carrying capacity of 158,622 tons. It is now under tow in the eastern Mediterranean en route to Greece, according to VesselFinder, where the damage is expected to be assessed.
Reuters
17-06-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Russian Sibur doubles LPG loadings from Ust-Luga, resumes supply to India
MOSCOW, June 17 (Reuters) - Sibur, Russia's largest producer and exporter of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), has doubled LPG loadings through the Baltic port of Ust-Luga in January-May 2025 compared to the same period in 2024 to 418,000 metric tons, according to two industry sources and LSEG data. The sources said Sibur managed to increase exports by fixing for shipments of several new MGC (medium gas carrier) class gas tankers, each able to carry up to 20,000 tons of product. The company also managed to resume LPG supplies to India it last did in 2023, LSEG data showed. Following EU sanctions on Russian LPG supplies (except for butane and isobutane) at the end of 2024, Sibur partially redirected volumes from Europe to Ust-Luga port for seaborne exports and looked for new buyers for its product, the sources said. Until April this year Sibur's LPG sea shipments were mostly Turkey-bound with about 90% of all shipments from Ust-Luga going to the country, but last month Sibur shipped two tankers with a total volume of about 40,000 tons to India. According to traders, Sibur shifted a part of the LPG volumes from Turkey to India because of the excess on the Mediterranean market. "There is a lot of gas on the (Mediterranean) market, especially propane. So it is quite a reasonable move to redirect part of the volumes to India," one of the sources said. Sibur confirmed to Reuters their LPG shipments from Ust-Luga to India in May. The company believes that the increase in LPG shipments by Sibur as a whole from Ust-Luga is due to "an increase in available volumes (of LPG), since the Russian market is currently (in) surplus." Regarding the prospects for Sibur's LPG deliveries to India in the future, the company's press service told Reuters that "Sibur is constantly evaluating all available markets and will look at the economic efficiency (of deliveries)" Sibur previously supplied LPG from Ust-Luga to India in the third quarter of 2023 after European buyers partially banned LPG purchases from Russia. In 2024, Sibur cut loadings from Ust-Luga port by 37% compared to 2023 to 570,000 tons, according to traders and LSEG. At the end of 2023, the European Union imposed an embargo on the import of Russian-origin LPG with a 12-month transition period, during which the export of propane-butane from Russia to Europe was possible under long-term contracts concluded before the introduction of sanctions. Since December 2024, the sanctions have come into full force.
