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Russian Oil Backed Up at Sea After India’s Refiners Step Away

" Jan 28, 2026 (Bloomberg) –India’s pullback from Russian oil imports is leaving Moscow with the dilemma of what to do with all the crude that it’s pumping onto tankers but is unable to offload at refineries. "

https://gcaptain.com/russian-oil-backed-up-at-sea-after-indias-refiners-step-away/

#WarOfAggression #Europa #Ukraine #India #Oil #Sumy #Refiners #warfare #army #war #Russia #WarCriminal #invaders #occupiers #defenders
#перемогаYкраїни

Russian Oil Backed Up at Sea After India’s Refiners Step Away

India’s pullback from Russian oil imports is leaving Moscow with the dilemma of what to do with all the crude that it’s pumping onto tankers but is unable to offload at refineries.

gCaptain

Expanding #sanctions on #Chinese ports and #refiners are choking flows of #russian and #Iranian #oil to the world’s No. 1 importer, although emerging workarounds suggest the slowdown may be fleeting.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-18/fear-of-sanctions-stymies-russia-to-china-oil-flows-for-now

Indian Refiners Move to Slash Russian Oil Imports After New Trump Sanctions – Reuters

India’s major refiners are preparing to sharply cut their purchases of Russian crude, following new U.S. sanctions targeting Moscow’s top energy producers, Reuters reported Thursday, citing industry sources. “There will be a massive cut,” one refinery source was quoted as saying.

The Moscow Times

#Turkey’s energy minister has said buying #russian #oil is a commercial decision made by #refiners, signaling reluctance to abide by #US President Donald #Trump’s calls to cut energy ties with #moscow.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-03/turkey-says-russian-oil-purchases-up-to-firms-amid-trump-s-call

#Indian state #refiners have stopped buying #russian #oil in the past week as discounts narrowed this month and #US President Donald #Trump warned against purchasing oil from #moscow, industry sources said.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/indian-state-refiners-pause-russian-oil-purchases-sources-say-2025-07-31/

#Oil #refiners in #India, the biggest importer of #russian crude, may be looking at diversifying some buying away from #moscow after fresh #EU #sanctions amid the #war in #Ukraine

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-28/indian-refiners-look-more-widely-for-oil-after-eu-s-russia-curbs

Now again #LLMs: if you do not want to train your own #ai foundation model, you can patch it with so-called #adapters. Benjamin Trim talked about their own open-source adapter micro framework: #Refiners work on top of #PyTorch and use declarative layers to patch models, context API to store state. #fosdem2024
Apple ‘Conflict Minerals Disclosure’ Says It Stopped Working With 12 Suppliers 

According to a SEC filing, the company has removed 163 smelters and refiners from its supply chain since 2009.