During January-April 2023, three largest exporters of liquefied gas to Ukraine – Poland, Latvia and Lithuania – received 613,000 tons of rail consignments of LPG from Russia, another 15,000 tons of Kazakh LPG were imported by rail to Poland.
Poland, the largest consumer of LPG in the EU, kept the volume of rail imports from Russia at the level of the previous year over the reporting period, namely 462 thousand tons.
The largest suppliers from Russia to the eastern LPG hubs of Poland still include the SIBUR, Lukoil, and Tatneft, Gazprom, Irkutsk NC and Rosneft works. In its turn, Ukraine imported up to 138.7 thousand tons of liquefied gas from Poland during January-April 2023, which is up to 48% of the volume of supplies from Poland for the whole 2022. At the same time, according to NaftoRynok, at least 97 thousand tons of gas were bought by Ukrainian companies from the terminals that transship Russian propane-butane in the eastern (border bases to Belarus) and northern (to Russia) parts of Poland. Ukrainian importers purchased at least 4.1 out of 15.0 thousand tons of gas from Kazakh traders, with delivery to Ukraine via Poland. However, this did not prevent the Ukrainian traders from performing customs clearing of 52,500 tons of LPG from Poland holding Kazakh-origin documents.
Over the four months, Latvia increased rail imports of Russian liquefied gas to 132,000 tons, which is twice the volume of 2022, and THREE times the deliveries of January-April 2021.
The largest shipments of LPG to Latvia were carried out by SIBUR factories - 20%, Lukoil - 19%, and two residents of the St. Petersburg region, the KINEF plant and Ekogazservice - 15% and 10%. The volumes are equivalent to a third of Russian gas imports into the country; 41.9 thousand tons were exported to Ukraine during this period. Ukrainian importers make loading at the gas pumping stations located in the main Latvian hubs of Russian LPG – in Daugavpils and Riga - 74 and 52 thousand tons of Russian LPG arrived here in the four months.
Besides, rail exports of Russian LPG to Lithuania almost doubled, from 11 to 20,000 tons, during January-April 2023.
It should be noted that Ukrainian companies, in addition to importing the resource from the Lithuanian Mazeikiu Refinery, also bought gas from GAZIMPEKSAS from such bases as Tialšiai, Marijampole, Kupiškis. In the four months, 12.9 thousand tons of Russian LPG arrived here. Ukrainian importers, in their turn, exported 11.9 thousand tons during this period. Moreover, 7.2 thousand tons of Russian gas arrived in Vilnius, from where 4.2 thousand tons were sent to Ukraine by gas carriers over the course of four months.
Earlier, since 21 May 2023, Ukraine banned the import of petroleum products originating from the terrorist country of Russia.
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