London — Oil traders and refiners with cargoes of contaminated Russian oil may be forced to find buyers for the unwanted shipments in China or Japan where the corrosive crude can be blended with large volumes of government-controlled strategic crude stocks, Vitol director Mike Muller said Wednesday. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Around 15 million barrels of Urals crude contaminated with organic chloride were loaded into tankers from Russia’s Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga around the end of April and early May, according to market sources, with independent oil traders such as Vitol and Glencore among the key buyers. Levels of organic chlorides in the Urals stream at Ust-Luga jumped to more than 60 ppm at the height of the contamination in some cases, from normal levels of less than 5 ppm. Vitol, the world’s biggest independent oil trader, was one of […]