[1] 🚨THREAD🚨 According to @NesteGlobal, Russian Urals crude oil continues to crater in price compared to the Brent crude benchmark. Trading at -$5.65 per barrel on 5 day average.
What does this mean? And how can corporate responsibility urgently support Ukraine? Please read👇
[2] Energy traders still assess sanctions & reputational risk of importing Russian oil, & are avoiding oil tanker calls at Baltic & Black Sea Russian ports due to security & sanctions risk.
Turkish owned ship was struck by a shell in Black Sea today.
[3] This has led Russian Urals oil price per barrel to hit “lowest ever level relative to Brent” at -$11.23 per barrel as of a few hours ago according to S&P Global Platts:
[4] Even if sanctions on Russia’s state owned oil sector haven’t yet been deployed by Transatlantic community and global partners, the private sector holding off from importing these volumes can help ensure Putin regime can’t cash in from current higher oil prices as it waged war
[5] Therefore we should appeal global energy firms to not import Russian oil in spite of the discount for as long as possible to demonstrate corporate responsibility, deprive Putin of profits, & support Ukraine in the face of Russia’s illegal war of aggression. #StandWithUkraine
[6] Neste Urals-Brent differential pricing Data Link for live updates:
[1] 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 Germany’s announcement it has suspended certification of Kremlin’s #NordStream2 pipeline was an urgently needed step given Russia’s overt invasion of Ukraine’s Donbas region. Welcome & long overdue.
[2] Suspending the certification process for #NordStream2 should be seen as a first step by Berlin in deterring further Russian military action against Ukraine, followed by further action to block the pipeline for good.
[3] Berlin should next seek sanctions at the EU level ensuring that the Kremlin-backed #NordStream2 can never come online and be allowed to do lasting harm to European energy security and Ukrainian national security interests in the process.
🇺🇸🇪🇺 [1] With Washington once again focusing on policy options to stop the Kremlin-backed NordStream2 pipeline this week, my attempt at a (hopefully thoughtful) thread to help provide context:
[2] The framing of NordStream2 sanctions has suddenly (and unfortunately) become partisan, but in fact, opposition to NS2 has been bipartisan since 2015, and support for sanctions has been led by Democrats and Republicans since 2017.
[3] The US has opposed #NordStream2 on bipartisan basis since 2015. Congress has passed both discretionary (2017 CAATSA) & mandatory (2019 & 2020 NDAA) sanctions to stop #NS2 on near unanimous basis. In 2016, VP Biden was first prominent senior official to publicly oppose NS2.