Belarus has not yet been able to receive foreign oil
The tanker Breiviken, which is carrying 80 thousand tons of oil for Belarus, was unable to enter the port of Klaipeda due to a storm.
This was reported by kurier.lt, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
When the tanker can be unloaded, the oil will be delivered by rail to the Novopolotsk Naftan oil refinery.
The Belarusian authorities do not disclose the price of oil, which should become an alternative to the Russian energy carrier from the Druzhba pipeline. The website “Belarusian Partisan” tried to do this based on open data.
The market value of a ton of oil today is a little more than $470; Belarus will pay $9 per ton for transshipment at the port of Klaipeda, $40 per ton for delivery to the Naftan plant. Plus $1/ton for quality and quantity control, plus $2/ton for discharge on railway overpasses and pumping into refinery tanks. The total is around $520 per ton of Norwegian oil.
According to Belneftekhim, the price of Russian oil for Belarus is 83% of the world price. This means that oil from Russia costs Belarus around $390 per ton. A ton of Norwegian oil is $130 more expensive.
The supply of 80 thousand tons of Norwegian oil will load the Belarusian Naftan oil refinery, which processes 9 million tons per year and 25 thousand tons per day for just three days.
Earlier, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko announced that Belarus would purchase only a third of its oil needs from Russia. The rest will come through pipelines from Ukraine and through the Baltic ports and then by rail.
Belarus has not yet been able to obtain foreign oil.