Belarus’ Naftan refinery started unloading first ever barrels of US crude, operator Belneftekhim spokesman Alexander Tishchenko was quoted as saying June 11 by the Belta news agency. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now “US oil has already begun flowing at Naftan. At noon, we started unloading oil tanks that arrived earlier this morning,” Tishchenko said. The 77,000-mt (around 565,000-barrel) cargo of Bakken crude, arrived at the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda on June 5 and is being delivered by rail together with the remaining barrels of Saudi oil purchased by Belarus in late April. The first delivery contained 17 tank cars of US crude, with the rest arriving at Naftan over the next […]