It is up to the parliament and the Council of Ministers to decide whether there will be any discounts for businesses and consumers, says the special commercial manager of the "Lukoil" companies
- Mr. Simeonov, the price of a barrel of Brent crude passed 100 dollars. This has happened before, though, so why are we now seeing such higher prices at the pumps?
- There are many reasons. First, in the years before, when the green deal was being conceived, Europe decided to become much more environmentally friendly and began deindustrialization. This also affected refineries, and over the last 20 years, around 35 refineries in Europe were closed. This production was moved to the Persian Gulf, meaning that from there, apart from crude oil, ready refined products also came. As of today, the Persian Gulf is literally closed, the Strait of Hormuz is closed, and neither crude oil nor finished refined products can come from there. The next reason is the war in Ukraine. In recent months there have been many drone attacks targeting refineries in Russia. A large part of the refined production from Russia entered Turkey, and subsequently many countries in Western Europe sourced finished refined products from there. They said the products were not Russian, but in reality the original source was there. As a result, in practice, no finished refined product is coming into Europe, and diesel is becoming a very scarce commodity.
