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Or is this it for russia? oil is a global or is this it for russia? (1) i. is a global commodity, so if europe manages to not, not getting oilfrom russia, then there is a global market, we rush is going to try to sell. now, there are some limits on russia, the russian oil export infrastructure is designed to move forward towards the west, it s pipeline infrastructure towards asia is almost fully utilised it means it will be incurring somewhat more significant transportation cost when it tries to move oil to other destinations. but without calibrating the assumptions with further measures, one can assume russia will be able to redirect huge proportion of global oil that does not end up in europe.
All reliant on russian oil have called for exemptions before they can approve it. one of them is hungary. here s their foreign minister. hungary could only agree to the sanctions hungary could only agree to the sanctions of crude oil transported by pipeline was exempt. in that case the security exempt. in that case the security of hungary energy suapty security of hungary energy supply would be upheld, as this is not supply would be upheld, as this is not the supply would be upheld, as this is not the case, the brussel sanction is not the case, the brussel sanction package will destroy the security of the hungarian energy the security of the hungarian energy supply. the package the security of the hungarian energy supply. the package in this form energy supply. the package in this form cannot be responsibly supported. adnan vatansever is author of the book oil in putin s russia and teaches at king s college london. is this going to happen? i think, this is indeed as you