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Oil, Gas, Renewables, OPEC+, Pipelines, LNG, Caspian Energy
Drones on the East-West line: Riyadh absorbs the hit, holds the response
Listen to Sergei Petrov's latest column.
Spent 20 years inside the Russian energy complex before the 2022 pivot changed everything. Now writes from Tbilisi. His Rolodex of energy ministry contacts across 14 countries is unmatched.
12 articles · ~36 min total reading
A 5-million-barrel-per-day bypass around the Strait of Hormuz took fire from Iraqi territory. Brent sits at $109.51. The restraint is the story.
A Turkish operator absorbs the distribution risk in one of Uzbekistan's largest oblasts. The concession is a wires deal; the physics is a generation deal.
Tashkent's move to lock in long-term jet fuel from CNAF and Sinopec exposes a domestic distillate gap that a decade of upstream talk was meant to close.
