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Georgia's Sole Oil Refinery to Halt Russian Crude Processing by September to Avoid EU Sanctions

The Moscow Times

2d ago· 3 min readenNews

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Summary

Georgia's only oil refinery, the Kulevi refinery owned by Black Sea Petroleum, announced it will stop processing Russian crude oil by August-September 2025 to avoid being hit by European Union sanctions. The refinery processed 650,000 metric tons of crude oil in the first half of 2025 and will shift to entirely non-Russian crude sources. The EU had threatened to include the refinery in its 20th sanctions package.

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Starting from August-September of this year, the company will begin refining crude oil of entirely non-Russian origin.

Georgia's only oil refinery said Wednesday that it plans to stop processing Russian crude by the end of this summer in order to avoid being hit by European sanctions.

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Georgia’s only oil refinery said Wednesday that it plans to stop processing Russian crude by the end of this summer in order to avoid being hit by European sanctions. “Starting from August-September of this year, the company will begin refining crude oil

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