FILE PHOTO: The Druzhba oil pipeline between Hungary and Russia is pictured at the Hungarian MOL Group's Danube Refinery in Szazhalombatta, Hungary, May 18, 2022. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo//File Photo
NEW YORK: Sweeping US sanctions on Russia’s oil industry are unlikely to result in a “large hit” to production, as higher freight rates and the nation’s cheap crude support the trade, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
Rising fees have encouraged non-sanctioned ships to move Russian crude, filling the gap left by blacklisted tankers, analysts including Callum Bruce wrote in a note.
