OREANDA-NEWS  In December 2022, Russian crude oil exports decreased by 22 percent compared to the average for the previous 11 months. This became known to The Wall Street Journal newspaper from the data of the company Kpler, engaged in the analysis of commodities.

Against the background of sanctions, the average daily indicator of offshore oil supplies from Russia decreased to 2.5 million barrels. This could be a consequence of weak demand, since now only a small group of buyers, including India, China, Turkey and Bulgaria, remain for Russian oil, analysts say. Experts call bad weather another factor.

Earlier in December, Bloomberg wrote that Russian gas exports to key markets in 2022 have almost halved to the lowest level since the beginning of the century. Gazprom's supplies to Europe, which was the largest buyer of energy resources, have been declining for several months, including due to the refusal of a number of countries to pay for fuel in rubles.

Currently, gas enters European territory only through one of the points on the border of Russia and Ukraine, as well as through one branch of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline to Hungary and Serbia. At the same time, Russia is gradually increasing exports to China.