OPEC+ Set To Continue With 400,000 Bpd Production Increase

 

 
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The OPEC+ group is expected to decide next week whether it should continue unwinding the oil production cuts by another 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) in March, as global demand holds resilient despite record COVID cases in major oil-consuming countries, OPEC+ delegates told Bloomberg on Wednesday.

The alliance is meeting online on February 2 to decide on production levels and quotas for March, having approved 400,000-bpd monthly production hikes each month since August.

For next week's meeting, expectations of OPEC+ delegates from around half of the coalition's producers are that the same increase will be approved for March, largely in line with analyst expectations that the group would continue to add more supply to the market.

Analysts, however,

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U.S. Natural Gas Prices Jump On High Demand

 

U.S. natural gas prices surged by 6 percent early on Wednesday as frigid weather in many parts of the United States lifted demand, and commodity markets eyed the Russia-Ukraine crisis, fearing disruptions of natural gas flows to Europe in the event of a conflict.

At 9:57 a.m. EST on Wednesday, the U.S. benchmark price, Henry Hub, was rising by 5.90% to $4.298 per million British thermal units (MMBtu).

Natural gas prices reflected expected high to very high demand for space heating and electricity in the United States in the coming days. According to estimates from NatGasWeather.com for the week January 26 to February 2, national natural gas demand is expected to be

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Combustibles Hafesa

CINCO DIA

 

7 de junio de 1921

 

El juez de la Audiencia Nacional José Luis Calama ha propuesto juzgar a una organización criminal constituida en torno a la empresa Hafesa Energía que, en el periodo comprendido entre 2016 y 2019, habría cometido supuestamente un fraude fiscal en concepto de IVA de hidrocarburos superior a los 154 millones de euros.

En el auto de pase a procedimiento abreviado, que pone fin a la instrucción, el titular del Juzgado Central de Instrucción número 4 propone sentar en el banquillo de los acusados al presunto jefe de la trama, el presidente del Grupo Hafesa, Alejandro Hamlyn, al director general de la mercantil y su lugarteniente, José Norberto Uzal, así como a otra veintena de personas, por delitos de

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NATO, Russia, and the Security Dynamics in the Black Sea

 

 

 

 

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British Royal Navy's destroyer HMS Defender, followed by Royal Netherlands Navy frigate HNLMS Evertsen, sails in the Bosphorus, on its way to the Mediterranean Sea, in Istanbul, Turkey.
 

In the last decade, the Black Sea has become a de facto arena for competing and objectively irreconcilable strategic interests, where an opportunistic Russia has unilaterally changed the security architecture and dynamics in the region via not only conventional military means, but also highly sophisticated and hybrid means that have allowed Moscow plausible deniability.

This has objectively left NATO and the EU to play catch-up in regard to developing sufficient means to counter what we have now termed hybrid warfare.

Understandably, this was rather difficult to foresee in the 90s, as a weak and indebted

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Combustibles Hafesa (2)

CINCO DIA

 

7 de junio de 1921

 

El juez de la Audiencia Nacional José Luis Calama ha propuesto juzgar a una organización criminal constituida en torno a la empresa Hafesa Energía que, en el periodo comprendido entre 2016 y 2019, habría cometido supuestamente un fraude fiscal en concepto de IVA de hidrocarburos superior a los 154 millones de euros.

En el auto de pase a procedimiento abreviado, que pone fin a la instrucción, el titular del Juzgado Central de Instrucción número 4 propone sentar en el banquillo de los acusados al presunto jefe de la trama, el presidente del Grupo Hafesa, Alejandro Hamlyn, al director general de la mercantil y su lugarteniente, José Norberto Uzal, así como a otra veintena de personas, por delitos de

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