Total and Eni have stopped payments for the contaminated oil sold to them by Russian firms and said they will only pay when compensation is agreed, trading sources said, upping the stakes in what the sources say is Russia’s worst oil supply disruption.
Reuters: Western buyers freeze payments for contaminated oil in extended Russian outage
(FILES) This file photo taken on January 17, 2018 shows a picture of a sign of the French oil company Total, taken at a station in Mexico City on January 17, 2018. - French oil company Total will be on trial in Paris on October 11, 12, 18 and 19, 2018 for "corruption of foreign public official" in Iran in the 1990's. (Photo by Ronaldo SCHEMIDT / AFP)
