Germany apparently continues to get Russian oil

PCK Schwedt

The refinery in Brandenburg is essential for supplying East Germany with various products, especially gasoline and kerosene.

(Photo: dpa)

Berlin According to Handelsblatt information, oil from Russia is apparently still arriving in Germany. Specifically, this will be delivered to the PCK refinery in Schwedt, Brandenburg, according to government and industry circles.

The refinery is majority-owned by the German subsidiary of the Russian oil company Rosneft and has in the past been operated almost entirely with Russian oil. In the meantime, Berlin has put Rosneft Germany under trusteeship of the Federal Network Agency.

Germany has officially committed to stop buying Russian oil by 2023. Since the beginning of the war, the federal government and the other PCK shareholders Shell and Eni have been trying to find alternative sources of oil for Schwedt. They found one of them in Kazakhstan. But in order to get the oil from there to Schwedt, it has to go through Russian pipelines. The Kazakh oil is inevitably mixed with Russian oil. Because Kazakhstan uses the “Druschba” pipeline – the same line that Russia has used to date to supply Schwedt.

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