Storage hubs, ship transfers create tracking difficulties for Russian-origin barrels: analysts

Keeping track of Russian crude and oil products as barrels pass through storage hubs will be difficult amid tightening sanctions and growing attention on ship-to-ship transfers of Russian-origin liquids, analysts and data suggest. A ban in both the US and an impending one in the EU will prohibit Russian-origin products from being imported, regardless of how they get there. “An…