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Russia’s Oil Revenue Sinks as Urals Falls to $59

Oilprice.com Trade press Published 3rd September 2026 Global

What the source reported

Source-reported

Russia collected 326.2 billion rubles, or about $3.76 billion, in net oil revenue in August, down 22% from a year earlier and the lowest monthly total since February. Russia’s tax authority calculated August oil revenues using a crude price of just over $59 per barrel. Urals, Russia’s main export grade, averaged almost $95 per barrel during the spring after the Iran war pushed buyers toward barrels outside the Persian Gulf. Total Russian oil and gas revenue fell 16% year over year in August to 424 billion rubles. Oil and gas provide…

Publication
Oilprice.com · Trade Publication
Published
3rd September 2026
Original report
oilprice.com

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What ProcIntel recorded

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Category
Commodities & Input Costs
Geography
Global
Organisations
None identified
Collected
3rd September 2026 · 18:51

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

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Significance 2 · Moderate
Confidence 2 · Low

Initial Significance Moderate (25.0/100). Strongest contributor: Geographic Breadth (7.0/10 points). Limiting factor: Likely Event Severity (3.0/30 points). Initial Confidence Low (39.0/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Extraction Quality (3.0/15 points).

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Geographic Breadth
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Likely Event Severity