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Louisiana Light • 2 days | 73.63 | -1.24 | -1.66% | ||
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Bonny Light • 2 days | 75.68 | -0.89 | -1.16% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 76.55 | +1.08 | +1.43% | ||
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Mars US • 23 hours | 71.59 | -1.24 | -1.70% | ||
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Gasoline • 10 mins | 2.597 | -0.015 | -0.59% |
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Bonny Light • 2 days | 75.68 | -0.89 | -1.16% | ||
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Girassol • 2 days | 78.20 | -0.88 | -1.11% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 76.55 | +1.08 | +1.43% |
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Peace Sour • 15 hours | 65.54 | -1.24 | -1.86% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 15 hours | 66.84 | -1.24 | -1.82% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 15 hours | 75.79 | -1.24 | -1.61% | ||
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Central Alberta • 15 hours | 65.14 | -1.24 | -1.87% |
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Eagle Ford • 2 days | 67.77 | -1.24 | -1.80% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 2 days | 67.75 | -1.25 | -1.81% | ||
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Kansas Common • 4 days | 62.00 | +0.00 | +0.00% | ||
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Buena Vista • 8 days | 76.40 | +1.64 | +2.19% |
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Geopolitics
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The ramifications of Google's decision to leave China are deep: China's leadership, be careful what you wish for. I have been a student of China for 40 years. Alas, no,…
Southeast Asia Becoming China's Trading Partner of Choice
Some good research from China Knowledge this week. About how southeast Asia is becoming China's trading partner of choice. China's trade with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations has grown…
Ecuador Continues Its Defense in Arbitration Commenced By Chevron
On March 11, 2010, the Honorable Leonard Sand, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, denied the Republic of Ecuador’s Petition to Stay the pending arbitration commenced…
Damage Done By Nigeria's Contentious Oil Bill May Be Tough To Undo
Nigeria's controversial oil industry bill is expected to eventually pass but the government may find it tough to later shift gears as international oil firms targeted under the legislation scale…
Libya: The Energy Player Not to Be Dismissed
On September 1, 2009, Libya lavishly celebrated the 40 years in power of its leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Once qualified as the mad dog of the Middle East by President…
Iraqi Elections Likely To Fuel Ethnic Tensions, Further Delay Access To Kirkuk's Reserves
The elections in Iraq on March 7, 2010, are likely to serve as an important indicator of the prospects for a resolution of the long-running dispute over the administration of…
Yemen's Push Into the Gas Sector Fails to Stimulate Great Excitement and Raises Disturbing Questions
With Yemen’s oil revenues plunging, the government’s push into the gas market seemed like an economic saving grace for a state wracked by poverty and terrorism, but analysts warn more…
Renewed Battle for the Falkland Islands Suits the Embattled British, Argentine Leaders, and Others
The artificially-engendered revival of the dispute, which began in February 2010 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, has been…
China's Ambitions Reshaping South Asia as it Surges into India's Backyard
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Reports of $20 billion Total investment brighten Nigerian oil outlook
Reports that French oil giant Total is ready to invest $20 billion in Nigerian oil and gas development spread through energy markets in an unlikely bit of positive news for…
Kurds Push for Oil Law with Baghdad Amid South's Sudden Bright Future
While the Iraqi government has made overtures to its Kurdish counterpart in the north to end an oil standoff, much remains in doubt without an actual law keeping the industry…
The US-PRC Strategic Divide Begins
The simmering difficulties in the US strategic relationship with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were, by the beginning of 2010, ready to emerge despite the attempts of the US…
Iran Unfazed By Congressional Threats of New Energy Sanctions
U.S. lawmakers are toughening their stance on Iran’s energy industry with new economic penalties, but experts doubt the Islamic regime will pay much attention and is more likely to open…
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During the decade after the 1997 Asian financial crisis, China was generally seen throughout East Asia as a friendly alternative power-center to the American-led Washington-consensus that told countries in trouble…
As the Middle East Peace Talks Hit Deadlock, Talk of Israel Joining the European Union Increases
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A great - and still growing - divergence appeared in 2009 between public statements by leaders and their public performance. The politicized, romanticized theater of increasingly populist “democratic” leaders and…
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Indonesia, although a considerable distance from being a state capable of projecting power, has begun to bring greater focus to its strategic situation, and, at the same time, it is…
