Sign up here.<\/a><\/p>\n “We think the most likely ‘re-shuffle’ would be for more Indian diesel to go into Africa and free up more Middle Eastern supply for Europe,” Clare Morris, analyst at Energy Aspects said.<\/p>\n Russian crude made up 30% of India\u2019s seaborne crude imports in 2025, while it represented 48% for Turkey\u2019s seaborne crude imports last year, according to Kpler.<\/p>\n India has not sent any diesel to the EU so far in January, having exported a monthly average of 137,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 2025, making it the third biggest diesel exporter to the bloc, according to Kpler.<\/p>\n Turkey sent around 45,000 barrels per day of diesel to the EU in January ahead of the EU ban that started on Jan. 21, down sharply from 87,000 bpd a month in 2025, Kpler data showed.<\/p>\n The EU will allow fuel imports from oil refineries that can segregate Russian crude. Otherwise, a refinery must not import any Russian crude in the last 60 days prior to the bill of lading date of a cargo to continue fuel exports to the EU.<\/p>\n In India, Reliance (RELI.NS), opens new tab<\/a> has been the biggest fuel exporter to the EU in recent years, while Turkey\u2019s Star oil refinery, owned by Azerbaijan state-owned Socar, was the biggest Turkish exporter, according to Kpler. Star continued to import Russian crude in January.Turkey\u2019s biggest oil refinery, Tupras (TUPRS.IS), opens new tab<\/a> , stopped Russian crude imports in November at Izmir, one of its two major plants, according to Kpler, which showed the other plant, Izmit, continued Urals imports this month.<\/p>\n “Turkey isn’t naturally very long diesel, it has been importing Russian diesel for its domestic market and selling locally-produced diesel into Europe. The new refining loophole ban should curb that activity,” Morris said.<\/p>\n INDIAN DIESEL EXPORTS TO WEST AFRICA HIT ALL-TIME HIGH<\/p>\n India\u2019s diesel exports to West Africa were on track to reach an all-time high in December at around 155,000 bpd, according to Kpler, which showed January exports were on pace to reach 84,000 bpd.<\/p>\n EU countries\u2019 fuel imports from the U.S. and Middle Eastern countries reached a three-month high in January as the bloc diversified supply ahead of the ban, Kpler data showed.<\/p>\n Reporting by Enes Tunagur and Seher Dareen in London, editing by Alex Lawler and Alexandra Hudson<\/p>\n Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab<\/a><\/p>\n Purchase Licensing Rights<\/a> Seher oversees and writes market reports with the commodities and energy team in Bangalore round-the-clock and monitors newsworthy events in the resources space. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Item 1 of 2 Commercial vessels, including oil tankers, wait at an anchorage in the Black Sea off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[63,1773,29218,2096,4590,3150,3484,3485,29219,3486,2844,4591,4817,4818,1762,1597,1591,9530,9529,2847,1775,715,495,1392,4020,4431,491,493,1592,1144,1598,1593,1594,2810,8921,1397,29217,714,17212,3151,690,29220,2650,694,3396,1774,29221,4589,20985,1595,1596,29222,695,4023,1766,19113,19114,3155,2073,20990,29215,19109,4017,4816,3148,4588,29216,4585,29223,9528,23948,2846,5395,1770,2836,1590,4819,23947,4960,29224,4587,592],"class_list":["post-49622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-africa","tag-africa","tag-amers","tag-ascru","tag-asia","tag-asxpac","tag-bisv","tag-bnk","tag-bnks","tag-bru","tag-bsvc","tag-ceeu","tag-cisc","tag-clc","tag-clr","tag-cmpny","tag-com","tag-cru","tag-destnoinbsm","tag-destnointim","tag-destoukbsm","tag-destousnrg","tag-destozabsm","tag-destozatpm","tag-dip","tag-distll","tag-eeu","tag-emea","tag-emrg","tag-ener","tag-energy","tag-enff","tag-eng","tag-enr","tag-env","tag-eu","tag-europ","tag-fbox","tag-fin","tag-finreg","tag-fins","tag-gen","tag-hoil","tag-in","tag-intag","tag-meast","tag-namer","tag-nascru","tag-nasia","tag-ngs","tag-nrg","tag-oilg","tag-petref","tag-pol","tag-prod","tag-publ","tag-refi","tag-refi1","tag-regs","tag-repifuel-oil","tag-repigas","tag-repipetrochemicals","tag-repirefining","tag-repitransport-fuels","tag-rsbiclimate-change","tag-rsbiregulatory-oversight","tag-ru","tag-rulesrussia","tag-rulesukraine-crisis","tag-ruscru","tag-sasia","tag-seeu","tag-sustainable-business","tag-swasia","tag-topicenergy-oil-gas","tag-topicenergy-power","tag-topicmarkets-commodities-energy","tag-topicreuters-impact-top-stories","tag-tr","tag-trd","tag-trdemb","tag-ua","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Seher](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com\/reuters\/H24NV3AFCZCWPC463OG3JRYY7U.jpg\")
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