May 01, 2022 | Claire Jungman and Daniel Roth
As Europe increasingly shuns Russian oil in response to its invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has tried to get its Chinese ally to take up the slack. The world’s third biggest oil supplier is already China’s top provider, supplying 15% of total imports at 1.6 million barrels per day (bpd).
Half of that is currently supplied via major government-contracted pipelines, especially the key Transneft-operated Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline, the second-longest in the world.
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