Nayara Energy crude imports shrink, exports fall 60% amid sanctions

Sanctions-hit Nayara Energy’s struggles persisted in September, with the Rosneft-backed refiner locked out of non-Russian crude for a second straight month and exports plunging nearly 60% year-on-year, ship-tracking data show.

Nayara imported 330,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude in September, 22% lower than a year earlier as it relied entirely on Russian supplies, unable to access its usual flows from Iraq and Saudi Arabia, according to Kpler, a global real-time data and analytics provider. The September volumes, however, were higher than the 242,000 bpd it managed in August.