Britain widened its Russia energy sanctions on Thursday, adding oil producer Slavneft and Rosneft’s Arctic Vostok Oil project alongside a new set of specified ships. The government said the Slavneft listing makes the United Kingdom the first country to have sanctioned all ten of Russia’s largest oil producers.
The vessels named in the notice are five liquefied natural gas carriers, Melicertes, Neleus, Perle, Aeolus and Oneiroi, five oil tankers, Apeks, Sara Sky, Balu 6, Yvika and Alma, and the Koryak FSU, a floating storage unit operated by Novatek. The ships sail under a mix of Russian, Panamanian, Sierra Leonean and Djiboutian flags, according to the notice. Specified ships are barred from UK ports and face controls on chartering and operation, and on services such as finance, broking and crewing.
The company designations reach beyond shipping. The package also covers petrochemical producer Sibur, coal groups SUEK and Kuzbassrazrezugol, engineering firm Nipigaz and Dubai based trading businesses including Forteza Trading and Novus Energy, which British authorities linked to dealings involving vessels already under UK restrictions.
The announcement came as the prime minister attended the European Political Community summit in Dublin, where pressure on Russian energy revenues was part of the agenda. The European Union moved in parallel this week, with envoys agreeing on November 11 on designations targeting 145 entities that support Russia’s shadow fleet, according to Ports Europe.