Hi,
But why can't our refineries, refine Urals
(other than Parco)? If they can refine Arab Light, Iranian Blends, why not Russian. What is so different with Urals that it can't be refined at our refineries?
For reference, Arab Light's API varies from 31.8 to 33.4, Sulfur content from 1.77 to 2.06, Urals, API 30.68 to 31.78, Sulfur 1.35 to 1.48.
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@niaz Sb has explained this at lengths in another thread.
"Before the sanctions, Russia exported about 5 mm BPD of crude second only to Saudi Arabia which exports about 6.6 mm BPD. Russian most commonly exported crude is the “ Urals”. Like all export crude oil, Urals is a blend of the heavy crude oils produced from the Urals and the Volga regions with the light sweet crude of Western Siberia. It has an API of 32 with 1.2% sulphur, hence not too different in quality to the Saudi Light of 33 API & 1.77% sulphur and Iran Light (32 to 33 API and Sulphur of 1.4%). Pakistani refineries have been using Iran Light and Arab Light thus there should be no problem running the Urals crude. I am not sure if Urals can also be used for making good quality lubricants."
@Waterboy How many billions of dollars of goods and services do the countries you mentioned sell to Pakistan versus what they buy from Pakistan in return?
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