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St Petersburg Exchange halts publication of fuel trade data under decree
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The St Petersburg Exchange has stopped publishing a range of data in its Oil Products section, citing a presidential decree on control of information and statistics in the fuel and energy sector. Interfax says the withheld items include contract volumes for gasoline and diesel instruments, related archive information and daily and monthly trading bulletins. RBC reports the change applies from 6 October; trading participants will still receive the data confidentially through the exchange’s Terminal workstation.
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The St Petersburg Exchange has stopped publishing a range of data in its Oil Products section, citing a presidential decree on tighter control of information and statistics in the fuel and energy sector, Interfax, RBC and Kommersant reported on 6 October. RBC said the change applies from that day. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
According to Interfax, the withheld items include 15-minute delayed information on the volume of contracts concluded — volume in tonnes, volume in rubles and number of contracts — for individual instruments where the commodity is gasoline or diesel; the same figures in the instrument card; and archive information on plans for the sale of gasoline and diesel. Daily and monthly bulletins on trading results in the section, including archived ones, are also no longer published. The exchange said trading participants and users of information services will continue to receive the information under confidentiality through the ARM “Terminal” workstation. [ 1 , 3 ]
The exchange acted on the basis of a presidential decree. Interfax says Vladimir Putin signed decree No. 686 in September listing the fuel and energy information with restricted access and the procedure for its use, and that the measures were taken in response to what it describes as unfriendly and internationally unlawful actions by the United States and states and organisations that joined it. Kommersant says the decree was signed on 28 September and that data on companies’ exports, refinery processing and the sale of gasoline and diesel on the exchange were declared confidential; distribution of such data, including in media and online, is allowed only if the companies themselves disclose it. [ 1 , 3 ]
Kommersant placed the move alongside earlier changes to fuel trading. It said that from 21 July 2026 only end consumers and owners of filling station networks were allowed to buy fuel on the St Petersburg Exchange, which the platform said was intended to raise the transparency of supply chains and give end consumers priority access to oil products. Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak linked the new rules to a shift from purchases on the exchange or from intermediaries to direct relations with oil companies and regional operators, and in July 2026 the government also discussed offsetting direct supplies against the mandatory exchange sales norm and cutting that norm from 10% to 2%, Kommersant reported. [ 3 ]
Kommersant added that limiting public disclosure moves transaction data from the general information field into an access regime for trading participants and information service users, while keeping the data usable inside the trading infrastructure. [ 3 ]
Почему это важно
The change reduces public visibility of Russian fuel trading at a time when the government has been reworking how fuel is bought and sold on the exchange. Interfax says the decree was prompted by the need for urgent measures in response to what it describes as unfriendly actions by the United States and allied states, indicating an effort to limit outside access to Russian energy data. For readers abroad, information on Russian oil product flows becomes harder to track from public sources.
Ключевые факты
- The St Petersburg Exchange is ceasing to publish a range of data in its Oil Products section, citing a presidential decree on tighter control of information and statistics in the fuel and energy sector. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
- Interfax reports the withheld data includes 15-minute delayed contract volumes in tonnes, in rubles and in number of contracts for individual instruments where the commodity is gasoline or diesel, the same figures in the instrument card, and archive information on plans for the sale of gasoline and diesel. [ 1 ]
- Daily and monthly bulletins on trading results in the Oil Products section, including archived ones, are also no longer published. [ 1 ]
- The exchange said trading participants and users of information services will continue to receive the affected data under confidentiality through the ARM “Terminal” workstation. [ 1 , 3 ]
- Interfax says President Vladimir Putin signed decree No. 686 in September listing the fuel and energy information with restricted access and the procedure for its use; Kommersant gives the signing date as 28 September. [ 1 , 3 ]
- Kommersant reports the confidential category covers data on companies’ exports, refinery processing and the sale of gasoline and diesel on the exchange, and that such data may be distributed, including in media and online, only if companies themselves disclose it. [ 3 ]
- Kommersant recalls that since 21 July 2026 only end consumers and owners of filling station networks have been allowed to buy fuel on the St Petersburg Exchange. [ 3 ]
- RBC reports that the exchange stops publishing a range of fuel data from 6 October on the basis of the presidential decree. [ 2 ]
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- The St Petersburg Exchange is ceasing to publish a range of data in its Oil Products section, citing a presidential decree. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
- Trading participants and users of information services will continue to receive the affected information under confidentiality, through the ARM “Terminal” workstation and information services. [ 1 , 3 ]
- President Vladimir Putin signed a decree restricting access to information in the fuel and energy sector. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
Пока неясно
- The exact signing date of the decree Interfax says the decree was signed in September and numbers it 686, while Kommersant gives 28 September; the more precise date rests on one outlet.
- Whether the unpublished data will be restored later or withheld permanently The documents say publication has stopped but do not state whether it will resume.
- The complete list of affected data items Interfax lists specific items, while Kommersant’s available text is cut off, so the full scope is not set out in the documents.
- The July 2026 discussion of offsetting direct supplies against the mandatory exchange sales norm and cutting that norm from 10% to 2% Mentioned only by Kommersant, whose text is truncated, and not confirmed by the other outlets.
- Whether the halt takes effect specifically from 6 October RBC states the date, but Interfax and Kommersant do not give a start date in their available text.
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- Interfax reports that the St Petersburg Exchange is ceasing to publish a range of data in its Oil Products section, citing a presidential decree, and says decree No. 686 was signed in September. [ 1 ]
- RBC reports that the exchange is stopping publication of a range of fuel data from 6 October on the basis of a presidential decree. [ 2 ]
- Kommersant reports the exchange’s press release, says Putin signed the decree on 28 September, and lists export, refining and exchange gasoline and diesel sales data as confidential. [ 3 ]