Data from industry sources showed that Russia's seaborne exports of oil products in November fell by 0.8% compared to October, at 7,494 million metric tons. The impact of drone strikes?on the energy infrastructure has been offset by a certain degree by the completion of maintenance at a number of refineries.

Although the overall volume of traffic changed little, individual port flows varied due to factors such as drone attacks and the recovery of processing from?several refining plants.

The data from industry sources shows that fuel exports from Russian Baltic port -- Primorsk Vysotsk St. Petersburg?Ust-Luga - rose by 20.6% on a month-to-month basis to 4.697 millions tons.

Market sources reported that the increase in shipments was primarily due to loadings from Primorsk port and Ust-Luga port.

After repairs to damaged equipment caused by drone attacks in August, Russian energy company Novatek has restored the?gas-condensate-complex at Ust-Luga?to full-capacity last month.

Fuel exports via the southern routes, on the other hand, dropped dramatically.

The data and calculations revealed that oil product exports via Black Sea and Azov Sea port fell by 30.2%, to 2.062 million tons. This was due to drone attacks.

After the November 2 drone attacks, Russia's Black Sea Port of Tuapse suspended fuel exports and the local oil refinery stopped crude processing. Two weeks after the drone attacks, oil product loadings through Tuapse were resumed.

In November, drones also targeted the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk.

The oil product exports to the Arctic ports of Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, and Arkhangelsk increased by 80% in November, from 32,900 tonnes the previous month.

The data from industry sources shows that fuel exports from Russia's Far East ports increased by 1.2% in October, to 677.800 tons. David Goodman is responsible for reporting and editing.

(source: Reuters)