State-owned oil refiners are worried about their ability to work out the payment channels, logistics and insurance needed to keep buying from the OPEC+ producer after 5 December, said people with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be identified as the information isn’t public.
if western penalties prompt Russia to inflict retaliatory output cuts. More recently, however, President Joe Biden stressed the importance of keeping Russian oil flowing to prevent a supply shock that would send prices soaring. The Chinese had used a local financial entity known as Bank of Kunlun to deal with Tehran, consolidating all activities under one domestically-focused entity that continues to operate after being slapped with US sanctions.