Russia has maintained its liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) export volumes to Poland at 13.3 thousand tons of butane and isobutane fractions via rail shipments throughout February 2025, according to the analytical report Daily fuels&LPG from March 17, 2025, citing industry sources from NaftoRynok.
Russian LPG Supplies to Poland and Ukraine
In January 2025, Russia's butane exports to Poland included:
- Lukoil’s Perm Refinery – 3,000 tons
- "Omsk Rubber" (Titan Group) – 2,900 tons
- Kirishi Refinery (KINEF) – 2,700 tons
- Sibur – 2,500 tons
- Uralorgsintez – 1,100 tons
- Tatneft – 900 tons
Meanwhile, Russian gas supplies to Ukraine in February remained close to January levels, totaling 12,300 tons of butanes and 1,100 tons of propane-butane.
Routes and Methods of Supply
Additionally, LPG exports to Poland from Belarus are growing significantly. In January 2025, Belarus increased its imports of Russian LPG by another 3.2%, reaching 18.3 thousand tons compared to December 2024 volumes. The gas arrives in Poland from railway stations that lack gas production facilities but are home to LPG transshipment terminals.
Belarus, in turn, continues increasing its imports of Russian fractions, particularly to railway stations such as Vitba (where the TransExpedition terminal is located and was previously actively used by Ukrainian traders to import Russian gas), Lishchytsy (ZapadTransExpedition terminal), and Svisloch (owned by Belorusneft). Out of the 27.4 thousand tons of Russian gas received in Belarus in February 2025, 80% was concentrated at these three terminals.
It’s worth noting that Belarus has its own LPG production, primarily at the Mozyr Refinery and Rechitsa Gas Processing Plant, yet its domestic consumption of liquefied gas is dozens of times lower than its production capacity.
Import of liquefied gas fractions from Russia to Belarusian gas distribution stations in February 2025, thousand tons
Russian LPG in Ukraine: How Gas from Russia Enters via Poland Despite Sanctions
According to Ukrainian traders, Russian propane-butane continues to enter Ukraine from Poland under documents stating it originates from the EU or Kazakhstan, as offered by Polish traders.
Industry sources from NaftoRynok report that exports of liquefied gas from Kazakhstan’s Tengizchevroil (a joint venture of Chevron, ExxonMobil, KazMunayGas, and LukArco) to Poland surged to 8,000 tons in February, up from 2,100 tons in January 2025. At the same time, gas from Gazprom’s Orenburg Gas Processing Plant has seemingly disappeared from the market.
"Despite sanctions, restrictions from Ukrainian authorities and the EU, gas produced in the terrorist state continues to cross Ukraine’s borders. For the fourth year, neither the energy customs office nor the National Security and Defense Council sees this bloody resource in Ukraine.
Hoping that traders will stop funding terrorism is futile—they will keep buying cheap resources to make a profit. Despite undeniable analytical evidence of Russian gas supplies during the war, there has been not a single exemplary punishment from the authorities in four years," said NaftoRynok analyst Oleksandr Sirenko.
It is worth recalling that in December 2024, the final EU sanctions on Russian LPG took effect, except for certain fractions—namely, isobutane and 95% purity butane (customs code CN 2901 10 00). According to Bartosz Kwiatkowski, Director General of the Polish LPG Association (POGP), these products were excluded from the sanctions list at the request of Hungary and Slovakia.
