international commodities trader trafigura group pte ltd said it is reviewing its shareholding in vostok oil llc a massive arctic oil project in russia the trading company which has a longstanding commercial relationship with russian oil giant rosneft oil co and is one of the biggest traders in russian oil in 2020 took a 10 stake in vostok for 7 billion euros in 2020 equivalent to about 78 billion at current exchange rates of that investment 15 billion euros was trafiguras own money and the remainder borrowed from banks a number of publiclylisted western energy companies including exxon mobil corp bp plc and shell plc in recent days have said they are moving to exit investments in russia trafigura and its rival trader vitol are both investors in vostok rosnefts flagship oil project but as private companies operate further from the spotlight of political and media attention trafigura said wednesday it wouldnt invest any new money in russia we are now reviewing the options in respect of our passive shareholding in vostok oil the company added saying that it doesnt have operational or managerial input into vostok a vitolled consortium took a 5 stake in vostok from rosneft last year the dutch trader declined to comment about its investment