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Opinion: Oil Market ShowdownCan Russia Outlast The Saudis?

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In practice, the call for a change is a call for Saudi Arabia and Russia, the two dominant global crude exporters, which each daily export over seven-plus mmbbls (including condensates and NGLs) and which each see the other as the key to any "balancing" moves, to bear the brunt of any production cuts.

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Nornickel places CNY 5 billion exchange-traded bonds

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Russia-based Nornickel, the world’s largest producer of palladium and high-grade nickel producer, as well as one of the leading platinum and copper producers, announced the successful placement of CNY (Chinese Yuan) 5 billion (~US$716 million ) exchange-traded bonds (series БО-001Р-06-CNY) on 22 December. The bonds mature in 3.5

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Lamborghini confirms SUV, launch in 2018

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Lamborghini, a Volkswagen Group company, confirmed that a luxury SUV will join its product range as its third series model, with market introduction planned for 2018. Lamborghini intends to use the SUV to expand its owner base significantly, especially with an eye toward Chinese demand for high-end SUVs.

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Roskill: graphite prices could push higher on tightening markets for batteries & electrodes

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Despite some fallback during the winter months, prices remained above US$15,600/t through February and March 2018. Outokumpu reported in its interim report for Q1 2018 that high graphite electrode costs were still having a negative impact on steelmaking profits in Europe.

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IHS Markit: US poised to be world’s largest LNG exporter in 2022 as China becomes top LNG importer

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Among sellers, signings were roughly evenly split between the United States, Russia, Qatar and portfolio suppliers (although many of the latter are likely to source volumes from US projects). Among buyers, mainland China was by far the largest specified end-market, with Chinese buyers signing around 25 MMtpa of firm long-term deals.

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“Tesla Files” whistleblower alerts UK authorities about potential security risk

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Lukasz Krupski, who joined Tesla in 2018, alleged that personal information, including passport numbers, medical details, and salaries of current and former Tesla employees across the world, among others, are accessible to staff, including those in China, via internal systems.

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China’s New Breeder Reactors May Produce More Than Just Watts

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According to Chinese authorities, the ones on Changbiao are civilian power reactors, designed to generate 600 megawatts of electricity each, which amounts to a little more than 1 percent of the total capacity of China’s nuclear power sector. Not so in China, India, and Russia. This provides a way to get around that.”.

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