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Showing posts with label Ukrainian crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ukrainian crisis. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 10, 2014

‘Crude’ sanctions on others always hurt Japan

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The Oilholic finds himself in a rain-soaked Tokyo one final time before the big flying bus home! How Asian importing countries cope with ...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Hedge Funds have been ‘contangoed’

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Recent events may have pushed the Brent front month futures contract back towards US$108 per barrel; but there's no denying some have...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

A Russian deal, an Indian election, Libya & more

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While the Europeans are busy squabbling about how to diversify their natural gas supplies and reduce reliance on Russia, the country'...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

EU’s Russian gas, who gets what & BP’s Bob

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The vexing question for European Union policymakers these days is who has what level of exposure to Russian gas imports should the taps ge...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

EU’s ‘least worst’ gas supply scenarios & more

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The Oilholic spent last Friday evening downing a few drinks with a 'civil servant' of the diplomatic variety who'd returned bac...
Monday, March 10, 2014

Turkey's Russian connection: Bazaars to barrels

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The Oilholic finds himself in a soggy Istanbul, with Turkey in the middle of election fever and the Black Sea in the grip of a Cold War sty...
Thursday, March 06, 2014

Crude permutations of the Ukrainian stand-off

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When the Russo-Georgian skirmish happened in 2008, European policymakers got a stark reminder of how reliant they were on Russian natura...