The stock of PetroChina (NYSE:PTR) closed at $74.40 gaining 0.80% in yesterday’s trading session. PetroChina has showcased impressive business performance after it doubled its output of Russian crude. A new deal was struck in January and a senior industry source has proceeded to say that the plans will be coming into effect soon.

The company’s spokesperson said, “The Dalian Petrochemical Corp, located in the northeast port city of Dalian, is expected to process 13 million tonnes, or 260,000 barrels per day (bpd) of Russian pipeline crude this year, up by about 85 to 90 percent from last year’s level. Dalian has the capacity to process about 410,000 bpd of crude.”

A few months ago, the Russian and Chinese governments held talks in which they formulated the way forward in line with business. The recent increases were anticipated considering that much had been put in place in terms of progressive strategies and resource allocations. Russia’s top oil producer Rosneft will be entrusted with the provision of about 30 million tons of ESPO Blend crude to PetroChina in the course of this year. Analysts following closely on the most recent developments take the standpoint that this will be a 50 percent rise over the 2017 outputs.

An additional 120,000 bpd of additional oil was channeled to Dalian and they believe that will form the bulk in the Russian increases and the changes are taking place at a time when quite much in terms of business dynamics is being experienced globally.

A market analyst has proceeded to disclose that the elevated pipeline supplies might end up displacing most of the seaborne shipments of ESPO crude. And that will of course be through the shipments from the Middle East as well as the Far East port of Kozmino that Dalian took recently.

It has also been revealed by a person familiar with the matter that the plant will dedicate its efforts to processing pipeline crude over just one year. Whether this is true or false in a matter that we just have to wait and see.