Earlier this week, Texas Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives @replloyddoggett introduced two bipartisan bills to #tightensanctions and curtail the ability of Russia to fund attacks against Ukraine with revenue derived from Russia’s oil. 🇺🇦❌🛢️💙💛👏🙏🇺🇸
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On January 15, US @replloyddoggett (D-TX) introduced two bipartisan bills tightening sanctions on Russian energy.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐢𝐥 𝐀𝐜𝐭 would close the “refining loophole” that allows Russian oil to be laundered through third-party countries and sold in the United States as gasoline and other petroleum products, and the 𝐍𝐨 𝐀𝐢𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 𝐀𝐜𝐭 would ban US companies and individuals — and their foreign subsidiaries — from providing petroleum equipment, software, or services to Russia.
New reports show US companies, most notably Houston-based energy giant #SLB (#Schlumberger), continue to enable Russia’s oil profits, which Moscow uses to finance its war against Ukraine. Deprived of American equipment and expertise, the sector would rapidly degrade. That is why @B4Ukraine proudly supports this bill as a critical step toward cutting war funding and bringing a just peace closer.
A ban on imports of refined products from refineries running on Russian crude is also urgently needed. Between January 2024 and June 2025, the US imported $3.6 bn of oil products from three refineries in India. Of this, an estimated $1.5 bn was processed using Russian crude.
