• First cargo loaded aboard the Arc7 ice-class tanker Valentin Pikul.
• Loading began at Bukhta Sever on the Kara Sea.
• The 790-km Vankor–Payakha–Bukhta Sever pipeline has capacity of 100 million tonnes per year.
• Vostok Oil has an estimated resource base of about 7 billion tonnes of low-sulfur crude.
• Rosneft targets 30 million tonnes of shipments by the second half of 2027.
• Target rises to 50 million tonnes annually by 2030, with potential for 100 million tonnes depending on demand and economics.
• Aframax tanker Akademik Gubkin, about 120,000 dwt, was already waiting to receive the next cargo.
• Limited availability of heavy ice-class tankers remains a major constraint on expanding Arctic exports.
Putin promised to bring back the glory days of the USSR, and he finally delivered! Next up: queuing all day for a single roll of toilet paper and a chance to look at a potato.
Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian refineries are really cutting into this poor woman's errand time. Let's all press 'F' to pay respects to her lost afternoon. 🎻
Meanwhile, Ukrainians are spending their nights in bomb shelters.
For those who don't speak Russian, welcome to a standard evening during the Moscow fuel crisis. What you're witnessing is a highly sophisticated dispute over a spot in line at a gas station on the Leningradskoye Highway.
The combatants decided to settle their differences over gasoline using traditional methods. One gentleman goes shirtless with a telescopic baton, while his opponent reportedly opted for an adjustable wrench. The hero of our story is the guy filming from his car, who attempts to play peacekeeper by yelling at them to calm down, but wisely decides to just drive away once the heavy hardware comes out.
According to the original Russian news source, this is just another symptom of the ongoing fuel shortages in the capital. Everything is totally fine, though!
3 Days to Moscow, when?