UPDATE: The Bloomberg Commodity Spot Index, which tracks 23 futures contracts, climbed 13% last week. That’s the most in data going back to 1960 (!!) 🚨
Russia’s growing isolation has traders rushing to secure alternatives, sparking inflation fears
North Asia’s liquefied natural gas spot price surged to a record 🚨
🚢 Russian supply concerns intensified competition between Asia and Europe for available supply of the super-chilled fuel
📈 JKM LNG rose to nearly $60/mmbtu, doubling in the last week
“Panic spread through the international gas markets over supply availability due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict,” according to S&P Global Commodity Insights
Why today’s attack on the Ukraine nuclear power plant is nothing like Chernobyl 🧵
News of Russia shelling Europe's largest atomic plant sent shudders around the world. But there are a myriad of reasons why it's unlikely to result in an atomic disaster
While Ukrainain Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba warned of a disaster “10 times larger” than Chernobyl when a fire broke out at the Zaporizhzhia plant, analysts and specialists I spoke to throughout the morning said that was unlikely
📌 First off, what happened?
A fire had broken out at the Zaporizhzhia plant in southeastern Ukraine after Russian shelling overnight (the fire has since been contained)
The facility -- near the city of Enerhodar, about 500 km from Chernobyl -- has a total capacity of 5.7 GW
Brent oil surged above $110 a barrel for the first time since 2014 🛢️📈
⚠️IEA warned that global energy security is under threat following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
⚠️Global oil market was already tightening significantly prior to the invasion
Shell announced that it will exit from equity partnerships with Russia’s Gazprom 🇷🇺 🚨
That includes its 27.5% stake in the Sakhalin-II liquefied natural gas export facility 🚢
Shell is the latest western company to exit Russian investments amid the Ukraine conflict 👋
Shell will exit from the following projects:
>> Sakhalin-2 LNG export plant
Shell has a 27.5 percent interest in
>> Salym petroleum development
>> Nord Stream 2 pipeline
>> Gydan energy development
The ball is now in the court of Japanese partners at Sakhalin II — will Mitsubishi and Mitsui be put under pressure to exit as well? 🇯🇵
Sakhalin is a key plant for Japan, providing nearly 8% of deliveries