The Russian energy problem for the European Union and Germany was never oil.

Russia accounts for approximately 10 per cent of the worldwide oil production: 10.5mn barrels per day, of which 5mn are exported to the EU. A full EU oil embargo would not take the 5mn barrels out of the market, since these can be easily re-routed to China, which imports 9mn out of the 14mn barrels per day it consumes. Instead, the 5mn barrels a day from the Middle East currently sold to China could be re-routed to the EU. We know because this is already happening.

There are powerful economic incentives for China to keep switching from Middle Eastern to Russian oil: pre-Ukraine invasion, Russian oil (Urals) used to trade in line with Brent crude. Demand for Russian oil in international markets dropped as a result of western sanctions, including self-sanctioning by many companies, leading to a current discount of 20-25 per cent to Brent.