VAR review at Glencore in the first half of this year as volatility spiralled www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...
Ben Winkley, rendered inadmissible
@benwinkley.bsky.social
Mostly pushing Argus Media news from the oil and related markets. References to Dated, and dated references. Also general exhaustion and GIF-related add-ons. There's a hole in my head where information goes.
Saudi Aramco shrugging aside all the regional unpleasantness, making money hand-over-fist regardless www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...
Aramco profit up, export capacity unmoved: Update | Latest Market News
State-controlled Saudi Aramco posted robust second quarter results today, as higher oil prices offset most of the impact of output losses resulting from the US-Iran war. The firm said attempts by Yeme...
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Oil prices fall after Trump says talks are on. Iran says talks are not on. It's Monday, of course www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...
WTI tumbles after US calls off new attacks | Latest Market News
Benchmark WTI crude futures were down by more than 6pc in morning trading today after US president Donald Trump cancelled plans to launch a new military assault on Iran and announced a new round of ta...
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Oil lobbyists and SNP and Tory politicians will tell you BP is leaving the North Sea due to tax levels. That isn’t a credible explanation. In reality it’s down to the relative profitability of production and geology.
You can double your money making diesel in Europe. It's never been more profitable www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...
European diesel cracks at record as Med supply tightens | Latest Market News
Diesel crack spreads reached new records across Europe this week, topping $90/bl on 29 July, with supply tightness most prevalent in the Mediterranean region, where prices are at the highest premium t...
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Nutty train 4K! My fav band getting the restoration treatment www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNYR...
Madness: Take It Or Leave It (4K restoration) | Official UK Trailer | In cinemas 2 October
YouTube video by BFI
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also today: "TotalEnergies exprime sa Solidarité avec Tous les Pompiers de France"
Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 5d agoWildfires in Europe are “very worrying”, says Shell boss, as oil giant cashed in on high prices to make bumper Q 2profits of almost $10bn. "My heart goes out to the many who are suffering from it” Sawan abandoned many green investments made by his predecessor www.thetimes.com/business/com...
BP has put its UK North Sea business up for sale, looking to end more than 60 years as an operator in the country's offshore. www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...
BP puts UK North Sea business up for sale | Latest Market News
BP has put its UK North Sea business up for sale, potentially ending more than 60 years as an operator in the basin.
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It has never been more expensive to move oil products on the River Rhine, which is now all but impassible except for a few specialist shallow-draft barges. Loading operations are at risk of being suspended *entirely* at the beginning of next week. www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...
Rhine oil barge rates at record on near-impassable Kaub | Latest Market News
Freight rates for barges carrying oil products on the Rhine have hit an all time high because low water levels have left the river's Kaub bottleneck practically impassable and have rendered limited sh...
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Leiston is about 5km away from the Sizewell B nuclear power plant. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Major incident declared in Suffolk as 90 firefighters tackle wildfire on heathland
Several people evacuated after ‘large-scale, wind-driven’ fire breaks out at Dunwich Heath near Leiston
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BASF looks around and chooses honesty
53% of US crude oil imports over the past month came from Canada
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.KILMEADE: So the USMCA, are you looking to update that? TRUMP: I don't care. I don't really want to. I'd rather be independent. Here's the thing -- Mexico and Canada need us. We don't need them.
Tales Of The Unexpected Mystery
Alt: Tales Of The Unexpected Mystery
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Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.roald dahl's grandson is a former london-based journalist who once freelanced for the daily dot and then married princess raiyah of jordan during covid but then got divorced and moved to the US where he became a cop in south carolina and just married an american tiktoker
@daveyjones.bsky.social was unprepared for how the latest Real Ale Twats developed. What an amazing piece of work
Some days it doesn't matter how much Saudi oil infrastructure was attacked or how much the war over Iran and the war over Ukraine are starting to collide in the Caspian Sea, or how much other countries like Romania and Iraq are being dragged in to the conflicts, the oil price just wants to go down.
The Rhine river is low. Barge movements up river are almost impossible. Fuel prices are rising. www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...
Low Rhine water tightens German fuel supply | Latest Market News
Fuel supply along the Rhine in Germany is becoming increasingly strained by persistently low water, as many barges can no longer pass the Kaub bottleneck en route to the Upper Rhine and Main. Demand i...
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Crude supply-demand balances are shifting again and - as ever - west African producing nations are the ones getting squeezed the most www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...
LatAm squeezes west African crude in key markets | Latest Market News
Brazilian and Guyanese grades are outperforming west African crudes in terms of price and volume in Europe and China, with the potential to turn west African crude into arbitrage rather than base-load...
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reading this at the mo'. It's pacy, I like it a lot.
Jason Burke@jasonburke2.bsky.social · last wk.short notice but come and join me at the Frontline club tomorrow night to talk about the extremists who hijacked the 1970s, featuring carlos the Jackal, Leila Khaled, Mossad hits, exploding chianti, the iranian revolution, al-Qaeda and much else! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-talk-...
The wars in Ukraine and Iran combined at the weekend: Zelenskyy said Kyiv hit shipping in the Caspian Sea – "including vessels used in military cargo shipments involving Iran" x.com/ZelenskyyUa/...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) on X
Ukraine continues applying long‑range sanctions in response to Russian strikes. Last night, the warriors of our Defense Forces hit targets across different regions of Russia that are fueling this war. Once again, a plant in Kirov was struck – the one supplying components for the
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Jeffrey Epstein models Zuckerberg's Meta glasses. Spoof advertisements featuring the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein wearing Meta’s AI glasses have been installed at bus stops across London in a guerrilla campaign protesting against privacy risks. The activist group Everyone Hates Elon
Spoof Epstein ads go up around London in protest against Meta AI glasses
The activist group Everyone Hates Elon targets smart glasses in a guerrilla campaign over privacy risks and non-consensual recording
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An excellent long read on the slow death of the London Evening Standard via @londonermag.bsky.social www.the-londoner.co.uk/falling-stan...
Falling Standards: How Evgeny Lebedev saved - then sank - London’s newspaper
‘Everyone was being run ragged by his absolutely ludicrous requests and tantrums’
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BP nears sale of solar business Lightsource to Kuwait's SWF, per FT giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
BP nears deal to sell solar business Lightsource to Kuwait-backed group
Qualitas Energy and investment arm of sovereign wealth fund in advanced talks to purchase renewables business
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Moving Saudi crude via the Med and all the way around Africa is now a thing Asian refiners are prepared to do. Adds a month to the journey, possibly a couple of dollars/barrel to cover the tanker's fuel costs www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...
VLCC takes Cape route to avoid Red Sea | Latest Market News
South Korea's SK Energy has booked the VLCC <i>DHT Stallion</i> to carry Saudi crude from Egypt to South Korea around the Cape of Good Hope, avoiding the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb strait after Yemen's...
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Opec secgen wonders why the IEA is questioning the reliability of Mideast Gulf crude suppliers. Does anyone have any idea? opec.org/sgcorner-det...
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
Why is the IEA questioning the reliability of Gulf producers?
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Moving Saudi crude via the Med and all the way around Africa is now a thing Asian refiners are prepared to do. Adds a month to the journey, possibly a couple of dollars/barrel to cover the tanker's fuel costs www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...
VLCC takes Cape route to avoid Red Sea | Latest Market News
South Korea's SK Energy has booked the VLCC <i>DHT Stallion</i> to carry Saudi crude from Egypt to South Korea around the Cape of Good Hope, avoiding the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb strait after Yemen's...
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This was foretold, all the way back in 1990. The seer, MC Tunes, told us as much in 'Tunes Splits The Atom': "Manchester, the next capital of England" www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS38... We ignored him at our peril.
MC Tunes - Tunes Splits The Atom
YouTube video by zttrecords
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The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 2w agoThe new prime minister says opening his headquarters in Heron House, Manchester, marks the best day of his life as he aims to ‘put more power into every postcode’