Energy
Germany Looks to Poland for Refinery as Russia Stops Kazakh Flow
The landlocked Schwedt refinery is one of many European oil-processing plants built in Soviet times to process Russian crude.
Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/BloombergGermany is in talks with the Polish government on the transit of additional crude supply for a refinery near Berlin that’s about to stop receiving Kazakh flows.
Kazakhstan has been shipping crude to the Schwedt refinery through Russia’s Druzhba pipeline since 2023 when Europe all but halted Russian crude imports following the war in Ukraine. Russia has suspended that deal from next month, leaving Kazakhstan to reroute those volumes.