Russia

Name: Where does Russia's oil go? China 42%, India 37% (2025)
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net exporter

After 2022 exports were redirected from Europe to India and China.

Answer

Russia exports about 4.8 million barrels of crude a day. The largest buyers are China (42%), India (37%) and Turkey (7%).

Data: 2025 annual averages

Key figures

Crude oil exports, barrels per day: 4.8 million
Largest buyer: China · 42%
Real risk: Suez Canal / SUMED · 37%

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Where does Russia's oil go?

Buyer	share	thousand b/d
China	42%	2,025
India	37%	1,782
Turkey	7%	350
Belarus	7%	350
Slovakia	2%	103
Hungary	2%	86
Czechia	0%	11
other destinations (not on the map)	2%	93

UN Comtrade, JODI-Oil · 2025

Which chokepoints does Russia's oil pass through?

The main maritime chokepoints on the way are Suez Canal / SUMED (37% of exports), Bab el-Mandeb (37% of exports) and Danish Straits (24% of exports).

Suez Canal / SUMED37% of exports · 1,782
Bab el-Mandeb37% of exports · 1,782
Danish Straits24% of exports · 1,158
Turkish Straits20% of exports · 974

Real risk: Suez Canal / SUMED – 37% of exports this way. Depends on the situation in the Red Sea; the Ever Given blockage (2021) halted 12% of world trade for 6 days.

UN Comtrade · 2025

How much crude oil does Russia export?

Produces 9.3 million barrels a day. Uses 45% at home and sells 4.8 million (55%) abroad – 2 supertankers a day.

JODI-Oil · 2025

Russia: how did the 2026 oil crisis affect supplies and prices?

February 28, 2026Iran closes the Strait of HormuzRussia: supplies keep flowing – yet the price still rises, because oil has one world priceWikipedia: 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis
March 11, 2026IEA countries release 400 million barrels from emergency stocksIEA, 11 Mar 2026
September 11, 2026Drones hit Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline – the main route around HormuzCNBC, 14 Sept 2026
September 28, 2026The East-West pipeline runs again, at lower capacitywnp.pl, 28 Sept 2026

Effect on supplies: model of oil routes (2025 flows), stranded = no sea route left on that day.

Main terminal: Primorsk · Novorossiysk · Kozmino

Sources

UN Comtrade – crude oil imports by country of origin (HS 2709), as reported by the importing country · 2025
JODI-Oil – national crude oil production, imports and exports · 2025
U.S. EIA – crude oil and petroleum products passing through maritime chokepoints · 2023

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CSV and JSON, CC BY 4.0 – credit “chokepoints.io” with a link. Volumes in thousand barrels per day, 2025 annual averages.

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