Insurers Raise Premiums for Black Sea Oil Tankers as Tensions Mount: Traders August 23, 2023 Insurance companies have notified charterers of ships operating in Russia’s Black Sea ports of an increase in additional payments known...
Russia’s Flagship Oil Rises Above G-7 Sanctions Cap, but Does Little to Impede Services August 22, 2023 By Alex Longley The price of Russia’s flagship oil may have jumped above a Group of Seven imposed cap but that has done...
Ukraine Black Sea Attacks Signal Expanding War; Russia Insurance Costs Likely to Rise August 7, 2023 By Bloomberg News The footprint of President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine is growing fast after a weekend in which sea drones crippled...
Russia Oil Hitting $60 Cap Adds to Crude-Oil Buyers’ Banking, Shipping Woes July 14, 2023 By Serene Cheong A top buyer of Russian oil is bracing for trading trouble as the price of Urals, the country’s main export...
Russia’s Flagship Crude Oil Surpasses G-7 Price Cap in Blow to Western Sanctions July 13, 2023 By Alaric Nightingale and Lucia Kassai Russia’s flagship Urals crude oil breached a price cap set by the Group of Seven, a blow to western sanctions...
Tanker Company Shipping Russian Oil Loses Insurance on G-7 Price Cap April 21, 2023 By Alex Longley and Julian Lee An oil tanker company heavily involved in moving Russian oil lost industry standard insurance for its fleet after falling foul...
Lukoil Buys Into AIG’s Former Russian Subsidiary April 20, 2023 Russia’s second-largest oil producer Lukoil has bought into insurance company GARDIA, a former subsidiary of AIG, one of the world’s...
Munich Re Will Not Extend Nord Stream 1 Coverage When It Expires This Year April 6, 2023 Munich Re will not proactively extend coverage for the Nord Stream 1 pipeline when it expires later this year, a...
Western Curbs on Russian Oil Products Redraw Global Energy Shipping Patterns April 6, 2023 By Mohi Narayan and Jonathan Saul Global fuel suppliers are turning to longer and costlier routes that produce more carbon emissions to move their diesel and...
German Insurers Renew Cover for Blast-Damaged Nord Stream 1 Gas Pipeline April 4, 2023 By Jonathan Saul, Carolyn Cohn, Christoph Steitz and John O'Donnell German insurers Allianz and Munich Re have renewed cover for the damaged Russia-controlled Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, five sources...