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The New Politics of Oil Trade: Impacts

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  • The Ukraine war has sparked unprecedented levels of government intervention in oil markets, with major implications for the political economy.
  • Sanctioned Russian, Venezuelan and Iranian volumes of crude now amount to 6 million barrels per day, making an already-murky physical market less transparent.
  • While sanctioned crude might be cheap, the overall impact of sanctions and other interventions is seen as driving prices up longer term.

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Topics:
Military Conflict, Low-Carbon Policy, Oil Trade, Opec/Opec-Plus, Opec-Plus Supply, Ukraine Crisis
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