• highly sulfurous and dense
• Exports from Murmansk, where oil such as Arco loads, shift to Asia
• Arco is pumped from the Prirazlomnoye field in the Arctic, and it is among three grades shipped out of Murmansk, along with Varandey and Novy Port.

While Varandey is relatively well-known to Asian buyers, Arco and Novy Port are less familiar in the region.

Most Arco used to go to the UK and the Netherlands, while Novy Port also had a focus on Dutch buyers, Katona said.