Data from Refinitiv Oil Research shows that Aramco chartered vessel British Resolution to lift 80,000 tonnes of naphtha from Tuapse, Russia, on Sept. 17 followed by the STI Exceed to lift 60,000 tonnes from Eleusis, Greece, on Sept. 24.
"It is not normal for them to buy European cargoes.
But they are short of A310," said a trader, who added that some of the cargoes are to be supplied to South Korea.