{"id":151405,"date":"2026-04-01T18:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/?post_type=news&#038;p=151405"},"modified":"2026-03-31T19:06:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:06:35","slug":"yedynyj-npz-gruziyi-vidmovyvsya-vid-rosijskoyi-nafty","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/news\/novosti\/yedynyj-npz-gruziyi-vidmovyvsya-vid-rosijskoyi-nafty\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia\u2019s only refinery has \u043e\u0442\u043a\u0430\u0437ed Russian oi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"50\" data-end=\"434\">The oil refinery in the port of Kulevi \u2014 Kulevi Oil Refinery \u2014 the only one in Georgia, will no longer accept or use Russian oil. Black Sea Petroleum, the company operating the facility, plans to replace Russian supplies with crude from Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, as well as use \u201cother alternative sources.\u201d This was stated by the company\u2019s CEO, David Potskhveria.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"436\" data-end=\"506\">\u201cOur task is to completely replace the existing Russian oil,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"508\" data-end=\"665\">The statement came after the Kulevi oil terminal on the Black Sea coast nearly ended up on the EU sanctions list against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"667\" data-end=\"857\">Potskhveria emphasized that imports of petroleum products derived from Russian oil into the EU are prohibited, while Black Sea Petroleum\u2019s strategic goal is to export to the European market.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"859\" data-end=\"1000\">Diversifying crude oil sources will allow the company to export refined products to new markets, including European countries, the CEO noted.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1002\" data-end=\"1184\">Potskhveria did not specify when the refinery would switch to new supply volumes but said that processing of non-Russian crude would begin after transit through Azerbaijan is agreed.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1186\" data-end=\"1375\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Despite an agreement on Turkmen oil supplies having been reached several months ago, deliveries from that country have also been delayed due to railway transport difficulties, he explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":151406,"menu_order":0,"template":"","newscat":[9],"newstag":[],"issues":[],"class_list":["post-151405","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","newscat-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/151405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"newscat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newscat?post=151405"},{"taxonomy":"newstag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstag?post=151405"},{"taxonomy":"issues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues?post=151405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}