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By Rhod Mackenzie
The OPEC+ countries' decision to maintain their current production volumes is expected to positively affect oil prices, according to oil market analyts predicting that prices are to remain above £90 per barrel in the coming months. At the OPEC+ monitoring committee meeting on Oct...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The refusal of Russian gas by many European nations last year, coupled with the resulting energy crisis, compelled Europeans to seek out "blue fuel" from around the globe, despite its high transport costs or price. The augmented demand for gas not only rendered the European gas m...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The OPEC Secretary General, Haitham Al Ghais, has cautioned on the possible detrimental impact of insufficient investments in the oil industry, which could result in a significant growth in oil prices and a potential energy crisis. "By underfunding the oil industry, we are endang...
By Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr.
At the 20th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club our session is called “A World Beyond Hegemony: BRICS as a Prototype of a New International Architecture”. The theme is vast and ambitious. Ambition is appropriate. Without ambition, nothing much is achieved. Th...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Since the beginning of 2023, the price of Russian oil in rubles has increased by 1.5 times and has exceeded 8 thousand rubles per barrel. This is brought about not only by the high price of oil itself and the low exchange rate of the ruble, but also by the fact that Russian oil e...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Moldova has announced that it would stop buying gas from Gazprom because it had found an opportunity to buy gas on the European market, and at a lower price. It would appear tha this loud statement was made to please the politicians and bureaucrats of the European Union: look, So...
