{"id":66233,"date":"2023-11-29T08:08:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T13:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66233"},"modified":"2023-11-29T08:08:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T13:08:16","slug":"the-dieseleuro-europe-is-guzzling-russian-oil-in-the-form-of-indian-diesel-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66233","title":{"rendered":"The Dieseleuro: Europe Is Guzzling Russian Oil In The Form Of Indian Diesel Imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ArticleFull_header__z0vIZ\">\n<h3 class=\"ArticleFull_title__FDrpw\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/commodities\/dieseleuro-europe-guzzling-russian-oil-form-indian-diesel-imports\">The Dieseleuro: Europe Is Guzzling Russian Oil In The Form Of Indian Diesel Imports<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_mainContent__2jyAd\">\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__HBEFs NodeBody_container__eeFKv\">\n<p>As western politicians\u00a0<em>ever so theatrically\u00a0<\/em>pretend to sanction Russian oil imports (just so they can signal to their voters just how virtuous they are), especially now that the war in Ukraine is almost over with the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/us-germany-pressing-kyiv-end-war-in-ukraine-9j6g22b9x\">US and Germany &#8220;pressing Kyiv to end the nearly two-year old\u00a0<\/a>conflict&#8221;<\/strong>, and have gone so far as to &#8216;demand&#8217;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/commodities\/greek-tankers-stop-transporting-russian-oil-us-starts-enforcing-moscow-sanctions\">Greek tankers no longer transport Russian oil<\/a>\u00a0(something which most of the Greek dark fleet is and\u00a0<em>will continue to do)<\/em>, the true comedy is just how hard everyone is working behind the scenes\u00a0<strong>to keep the status quo in place.\u00a0<\/strong>For a glaring example of western hypocrisy look no further than the\u00a0<em>Russia-India-Europe\u00a0<\/em>petrodollar or rather\u00a0<em><strong>dieseleuro triangle,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>where one year after banning most oil shipments from Russia, Europe is now binging on Indian diesel&#8230;\u00a0 that was made from Russian crude.<\/p>\n<p>Europe&#8217;s imports of diesel from India, one of the biggest buyers of Russian crude, are on course to soar to 305,000 barrels a day, the most since at least January 2017, the latest data market-intelligence firm Kpler show.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/europe%20binging%20indian%20diesel.jpg?itok=0rQ5io5t\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/europe%20binging%20indian%20diesel.jpg?itok=0rQ5io5t\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/europe%20binging%20indian%20diesel.jpg?itok=0rQ5io5t\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"289\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"5a50fa57-0c3a-4382-ae0f-b044298e61a1\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s not possible to say with certainty that the molecules originated in Russia as India also processes oil from elsewhere &#8211; although a blockchain lifecycle tracing would be most useful in this regard &#8211; Moscow\u2019s soaring (and cheap) oil exports to India have given Indian refineries an ability to produce abundant diesel and boost both profits and exports.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-11-27\/europe-is-guzzling-diesel-from-india-a-key-buyer-of-russian-oil\">Bloomberg<\/a>, arrivals into Europe in November include a rare shipment from Mumbai-based Nayara Energy,\u00a0<strong>which imported almost 60% of its crude from Russia this year,\u00a0<\/strong>according to Kpler. Reliance Industries, Europe\u2019s top supplier of Indian diesel, draws more than third of its crude from Russia, the figures show.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dieseleuro: Europe Is Guzzling Russian Oil In The Form Of Indian Diesel Imports As western politicians\u00a0ever so theatrically\u00a0pretend to sanction Russian oil imports (just so they can signal to their voters just how virtuous they are), especially now that the war in Ukraine is almost over with the\u00a0US and Germany &#8220;pressing Kyiv to end [&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":[3,5],"tags":[34018,281,422,2614,694,1109,4318],"class_list":["post-66233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-diesel-fuel","tag-europe","tag-india","tag-oil-and-gas","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66233","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=66233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66234,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66233\/revisions\/66234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}