Sanctions on Russian LPG do not work and probably will not work

Last week, the LPG industry began talks with the Ministry of Industry about the growing import of one of the components of LPG - butane - from Russia. This is simply bypassing the embargo on Russian liquefied petroleum gas that has been in force since December. However, there is a loophole in the sanctions that allows the import of n-butanes and isobutane. Isobutane is a different story, but n-butanes eventually end up in LPG. Both the Energy Re…