Russia hiking Kozmino oil supplies by 150,000 bpd – sources ESPO Blend exports from Kozmino to reach record in July-sources Kozmino port can potentially increase loadings to 1.1 mln bpd June 7 (Reuters) – Russia is ramping up oil exports from its major eastern port of Kozmino by about a fifth, aiming to meet surging demand from Asian buyers and offset the impact of European Union sanctions, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. Moscow has said it hopes to reroute energy exports from the West to Asia, but doing so via long tanker voyages from European sea ports is expensive and complicated by Western sanctions over the conflict in Ukraine, such as on shipping. Russia’s pipeline monopoly Transneft has already increased […]