Showing posts with label petrochemicals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label petrochemicals. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Russia-Ukraine: breaking news

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( Thanks to C. for pointing these out to me - VS ) Ukraine will receive a discount of $100 per 1,000 cu m at the natural gas price of $330 a...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Russia, China, Iran redraw energy map

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By M K Bhadrakumar for The Asia Times: The inauguration of the Dauletabad-Sarakhs-Khangira...
Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Absolutely brilliant piece by Eric Walberg - MUST READ!

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June was a busy month for two of Washington’s real ‘Axis of Evil’. Venezuela’s Chavez completed his nationalisation of oil and Iran’s Ahmedi...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Europe ’s winter of discontent: the Russian-Ukrainian gas war

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This will appear in the next issue of Al-Ahram Weekly http://weekly.ahram.eg.org/ More tricks and hot air from across the Atlantic le...
Tuesday, January 6, 2009

The Ukies are taking Europe hostage. Good!

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It appears that the Ukrainians have siphoned off the Russian gas destined to Europe for themselves because they don't want (or cannot) t...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Russia, Iran and Qatar to form an organization of gas-exporting countries similar to OPEC

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Press TV reports: The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, has defended the formation of an organization of gas-exporting countries simi...
Friday, September 12, 2008

Chavez threatens to halt US oil supply

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Press TV reports : Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has threatened to cut off oil export to the US in case of any 'aggression' again...
Thursday, July 31, 2008

Russia Takes Control of Turkmen (World?) Gas

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By M K Bhadrakumar for Asia Times (via Informationclearinghouse ) From the details coming out of Ashgabat in Turkmenistan and Moscow over t...
Friday, June 20, 2008

Iran fully converts its foreign currency reserves into non-dollar denominations

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Press TV reports : Iran says a decision to convert its dollar-denominated foreign reserves to non-dollar reserves is critical and needs to b...
Wednesday, June 18, 2008

They get our oil and give us a worthless piece of paper (UPDATED)

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It appears that Iran is on the offensive on the question of oil prices. First, the Iranian OPEC Governor, Mohammad Ali Khatibi, has dispute...
Monday, June 9, 2008

Why we all owe Shaul Mofaz a big 'thank you!'

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The big news last week was the report that Shaul Mofaz, a Lieutenant-General and former IDF Chief of Staff under no less than four prime min...
Saturday, December 8, 2007

Iran completely dumps the dollar

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Press TV reports : Iran abandons dollar in oil deals Iran has completely stopped carrying out its oil deals in dollar following the OPEC pro...
Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Iran is now selling 65% of its oil in euros

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by Lew Rockwell Iran is now selling 65% of its oil in euros, 20% in yen, and only 15% in dollars, and even that 15% it plans to switch to ...
Friday, September 21, 2007

Fears of dollar collapse as Saudis take fright

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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor, "The Telegraph" Saudi Arabia has refused to cut interest rates in locks...
Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Japan okays yen transactions with Iran

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A Japanese official says his country will use yen in half of its future crude transactions with Iran as requested by the Islamic Republic. H...
Friday, July 13, 2007

Iran wants oil pay in yen not dollars

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Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:39:03 The dollar has sharply plummeted against the yen this afternoon on reports Iran has asked Japan to stop paying for...
Sunday, July 1, 2007

Tehran ,Caracas Strengthen Ties

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TEHRAN, July 1 -- Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a meeting with his visiting Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez on Sunday said ...