The relationship between India and OPEC is more important now than ever. Any lingering ill-feelings between India and Saudi Arabia from their spat over the price of crude earlier this year should be quickly cast aside, to focus on each other’s growing importance as consumer and supplier. If OPEC needed a sobering reminder of India’s importance as a customer, it received it in the worst possible way: the resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic in the world’s third biggest oil importer. India’s oil demand growth is set to be just 350,000 barrels per day (b/d) in 2021, according to S&P Global Platts Analytics, given extreme consumption weakness in April and May, with much pinned on a recovery later this year.
The Iconic Darwin s Arch in The Galapagos Is Gone Forever After a Collapse
LAURA GEGGEL, LIVE SCIENCE
20 MAY 2021
The top of Darwin s Arch, the famous natural stone archway in the northern Galapagos Islands, has crashed into the waves, according to news reports.
The arch, located less than 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) off the steep and rocky coast of Darwin Island, collapsed as a consequence of natural erosion, on May 17, the Ecuador Ministry of Environment and Water wrote in Spanish on Twitter.
The natural arch was named for the English biologist Charles Darwin, who studied evolution in the Galapagos during his voyage aboard the HMS Beagle in the early 1830s.
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