Note
Policy threshold for covered seaborne Russian crude oil. On 15 January 2026 the EU applied its automatic dynamic mechanism for the first time, lowering the cap from US$47.6 to US$44.10 per barrel, effective 1 February 2026 (kept 15% below the six-month average Urals price, reviewed every six months). The cap was originally US$60/bbl (from 5 December 2022, US$47.6 under the 18th package); the United States continued to apply the US$60 level. A policy parameter, not a market price; manually maintained static value, not real-time, and may be revised at the next review. Not legal or compliance advice.
Version history
This observation is byte-present in 151 frozen dataset versions, from v1.37.0 to v1.187.0. Appearances are derived from committed frozen payloads only — not fabricated for versions that predate the full-payload store.
Full record history: records/observation--obs-sanctions-crude-cap/data.json · per-version field diffs: /changes/compare.
Relationships & machine-readable
Indicator JSON (with a relationship graph): indicators/obs-sanctions-crude-cap/data.json · source page: European Commission — Dynamic mechanism lowers the Russian crude oil price cap to US$44.10/bbl · per-record provenance.
How to cite
EU Russian crude oil price cap: 44.1 USD/bbl (EU dynamic cap (15% below 6-month average Urals), effective 1 February 2026), European Commission, via Warconomy. https://warconomy.com/indicators/obs-sanctions-crude-cap. Source-linked, manually maintained; not real-time.
Machine-readable: data.json · source registry · full page.