Russia Exempts Gasoils, Bunker Fuel From Export Ban

  • Russia introduced the fuel-export change with immediate effect
  • Temporary ban on exports of motor fuels was imposed last week

The loading of rail transport wagons at the Taneco Oil Refining and Petrochemical complex.

Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg
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Russia’s government has amended its fuel-export ban, excluding bunker fuel, gasoils and some middle distillates from the export ban imposed last week, according to the decree published in the nation’s legal database.

The amendments keep unchanged the key restrictions that ban exports of most gasoline and diesel.