{"id":41302,"date":"2025-12-22T17:01:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/us-sanctions-against-russia-urals-oil-collapses-to-34-per-barrel-bloomberg\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T17:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:01:19","slug":"us-sanctions-against-russia-urals-oil-collapses-to-34-per-barrel-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/us-sanctions-against-russia-urals-oil-collapses-to-34-per-barrel-bloomberg\/","title":{"rendered":"US sanctions against Russia: Urals oil collapses to $34 per barrel &#8211; Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The price of Russian Urals oil has fallen to $34 per barrel, while Brent remains at $61. This drop may indicate the impact of US sanctions and negatively affect the Kremlin&#039;s revenues.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2025%2F05%2F06%2F1746512617-1237-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"US sanctions against Russia: Urals oil collapses to $34 per barrel - Bloomberg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The price of Russian Urals oil has fallen to about $34 per barrel. This is reported by UNN with reference to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>According to the media, on Friday, the price of oil in the Baltic Sea fell to $34.82 per barrel, and in the Black Sea &#8211; to $33.17 per barrel. The price of Brent oil, which is the benchmark for international prices, was about $61, falling much less than Russian supplies this year.<\/p>\n<p>This may indicate that the impact of US sanctions against Russia exists. In addition, a prolonged fall in prices could negatively affect the Kremlin&#039;s oil revenues, which are used to finance the war in Ukraine, given that oil and gas account for about a quarter of the budget.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The cheaper oil becomes, the greater the financial incentive refiners have to ignore sanctions to buy it <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the publication says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Recall<\/h2>\n<p>By the end of 2025, an increase in Russian natural gas exports to China via pipeline by a quarter is expected. However, this will not compensate for the drop in revenues from the loss of the European gas market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of Russian Urals oil has fallen to $34 per barrel, while Brent remains at $61. This drop may indicate the impact of US sanctions and negatively affect the Kremlin&#039;s revenues. The price of Russian Urals oil has fallen to about $34 per barrel. This is reported by UNN with reference to Bloomberg. Details [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}