US extends licence to Serbia's refiner NIS, state TV says

Nis ad Novi Sad

23/01/2026 15:21

BELGRADE, Jan 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has extended until February 20 an operating licence for Russian-majority owned NIS NIIS.BEL, Serbia's sole oil refiner, RTS state TV said on Friday.

OFAC imposed sanctions on NIS - in which the majority stake belongs to Russia's Gazprom Neft SIBN.MM and Gazprom GAZP.MM - in October as part of broader measures targeting Russia's energy sector over Moscow's war in Ukraine.

(Reporting by Ivana Sekularac; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)

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