Black Sea Petroleum Says Kulevi Refinery Now Processes ‘Exclusively’ Non-Russian Feedstock

Black Sea Petroleum, a Georgian company operating the Kulevi Oil Refinery that was conditionally included in the EU’s Russia sanctions in July, said on September 1 that as of 23 August, the refinery “has been processing exclusively non-Russian feedstock.” The statement follows the company’s earlier pledge to stop processing Russian-origin crude, and the EU’s conditional sanctioning of …