How Russia Contaminated $2.7 Billion of Oil Exports to Europe
An oil storage tank of Russian oil pipeline monopoly Transneft is pictured at the Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga, Russia February 26, 2018. Vladimir Soldatkin/Reuters
MOSCOW/LONDON—It was a quiet Easter holiday at the offices of major European oil companies and refiners when an email in Russian landed. “What the hell does it say?” one manager recalled thinking as he sent it to his Moscow office for translation.
