Russian Oil Tanker Turns Back Under U.S. Sanctions Threat

An Aframax tanker carrying Russian crude to India has reversed course soon after leaving the Russian coast and is currently idling in the Baltic Sea, Kpler has reported, as cited by Bloomberg. The crude on board comes from Rosneft, which the U.S. sanctioned a week ago. The data, from Kpler and Vortexa, shows that the Furia loaded around 730,000 barrels of Urals crude in Primorsk on October 20 and set off for the Indian port of Sikka, which Reliance Industries and Bharat Petroleum use to receive foreign oi ...