{"id":50433,"date":"2020-01-06T06:36:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T11:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50433"},"modified":"2020-01-06T06:36:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T11:36:24","slug":"russia-halts-oil-supply-to-key-european-transit-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50433","title":{"rendered":"Russia Halts Oil Supply To Key European Transit Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Geopolitics\/International\/Russia-Halts-Oil-Supply-To-Key-European-Transit-Hub.html\">Russia Halts Oil Supply To Key European Transit Hub<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d32r1sh890xpii.cloudfront.net\/article\/718x300\/2e5803133dc1a4facbc8e20891af8ba8.jpg\" alt=\"Oil Supply\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia has halted oil supplies to Belarus amid a disagreement over tariffs, according to officials at a Belarusian oil refinery in the northern city of Navapolatsak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officials told RFE\/RL that the shipments stopped on January 1 and the facility is currently processing only Russian oil delivered before that date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Belarus has been at odds with Russia over oil-transit prices for some time against a backdrop of increasing pressure by Moscow on Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka to deepen integration between the two countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A two-month deal on natural-gas prices hours before a December 31 deadline helped the sides avoid a gas shutoff to start the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Belarus is heavily reliant on Russia for fuel and funding and is a key transit route for Russian energy supplies to Europe. And now, Russia has just broken a new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Energy\/Energy-General\/Russian-Oil-Production-Hits-New-Records-Despite-OPEC-Deal.html\">oil production record<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moscow and Minsk signed an agreement in 1999 to form a unified state, but little progress has been made in the ensuing two decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meetings between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Lukashenka last year failed to bring the two sides together as the Belarusian president complained he was merely seeking &#8220;equal&#8221; terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Belarusian protests in December targeted the perceived secrecy of the talks and objected to closer ties to Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike Pompeo this week postponed a planned visit to Minsk to meet with Lukashenka in what would have been the first visit by a U.S. secretary of state to that post-Soviet country in a quarter century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia Halts Oil Supply To Key European Transit Hub Russia has halted oil supplies to Belarus amid a disagreement over tariffs, according to officials at a Belarusian oil refinery in the northern city of Navapolatsak. The officials told RFE\/RL that the shipments stopped on January 1 and the facility is currently processing only Russian oil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2023,23083,28784],"class_list":["post-50433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-belarus","tag-oil-price-com","tag-rfe-rl-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50434,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50433\/revisions\/50434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}