Ukraine increases purchases of American oil
a Trading company Northwind Trade, which buys raw materials for "Ukrtatnafta", Kremenchug refinery operator, purchased from multinational oil and gas companies BP second batch of light American crude oil, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) volume of about 80 thousand tons, according to market participants, and Analytics companies Vortexa.
In the third decade of may from the USA to the country first went to 76.4 thousand tons of such materials. In addition, in late March, the Ukrainian market was imported to 80.3 thousand tons of American crude oil of the Bakken. In 2019 for "Ukrtatnafta" was delivered three shipments of Bakken varieties the total volume of 231,4 thousand tons.
WTI will deliver to the Chrysanthemum tanker (deadweight — 105.2 tons) in Odesa on 7 June. Raw materials will go to the Kremenchug refinery's main oil pipeline Odessa — Kremenchug. "Ukrtatnafta" recycles most of Ukrainian oil and Azeri light, which regularly buys from the state oil company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) delivered to the port of Odessa.