Russia’s crude oil production fell again in September, averaging 8.643 million barrels per day, according to OPEC data.

Russia’s crude oil production fell again in September, averaging 8.643 million barrels per day, according to OPEC data. That was 38,000 bpd below August, which itself was down 174,000 bpd from July. September output stood 1.306 million bpd below Russia’s OPEC+ quota. Russian refineries also remained under pressure from Ukrainian strikes, with crude processing averaging below 4 million bpd compared with a pre-campaign seasonal norm of 5.4 to 5.5 million bpd.