EU Eyes $100/Barrel Cap on Russian Premium Oil Products in Next Round of Sanctions
The European Commission is proposing that the EU set a $100 per barrel price cap on premium Russian oil products like diesel and a $45 per barrel cap on discounted products like fuel oil, European Union officials said on Thursday.
The price cap on Russian oil products follows a $60 per barrel cap imposed on Russian crude on Dec. 5 as G7 countries and the 27-nation EU as a whole seek to limit Russia’s revenue from its oil exports without disrupting world supply.
The price caps imposed by the G7 — the United States, Canada, Japan, Britain, Italy, France and Germany — and the EU are to curb Moscow’s ability to finance its war in Ukraine.
Both price caps work by prohibiting Western insurance and shipping companies from insuring or carrying cargoes of Russian crude and oil products unless they were bought at or below the set price cap.
The $60 per barrel limit on crude is now up for review as the market price has been just below the cap.
(Reporting by Jan Strupczewski and Kate Abnett; editing by Kirsten Donovan)
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