first we go to robin mills, whose chief executive officer of commerce energy. he's joining us from dubai. very good to have you with us on counting the cost. every one robin seems to be worried about oil prices crossing the $100.00 mark. do you see this happening? i think it says it's very likely that prices have been pretty close to that. but bach of food for several weeks now on the global $95.00 my be $6.00. so getting very close to laundry walk, it remains significantly tight and you have the geopolitical concerns on top of but so i think you do without some significant, reversed them. the situation is very likely we will, cassandra, in the near future. i will talk about the geopolitical tensions in a bit. what other factors have been driving these faces up? well, primarily, what we've been seeing is simply a very strong economic recovery from the current of ours. pandemic economies, reopening travel, restarting and particular, lot of industrial activity have the energy consumption and others run into constrained supply. supply of course collapsed during dur

first we go to robin mills, whose chief executive officer of command energy is joining us from dubai. very good to have you with us on counting the cost. every one robin seems to be worried about oil prices crossing the $100.00 mark. do you see this happening? i think it's yes, it's very likely. prices have been pretty close to that mark for several weeks now . they've got over 95 dollars 96 dollars, so getting very close laundered. the market remained significantly tight and you have the political concern for on top of us. so i think david add some significant, robust in the situation for like low cost in the future. we'll talk about the political tensions in a bit. what other factors have been driving these prices up? well, primarily, what we've been seeing is simply a very strong economic recovery from the current of ours. panoramic economies, reopening travel, restarting, and particular. a lot of industrial activity had the energy consumption and others run into constrained supply. supply of course collapse during during 2020 and they'll put it plus group was very successful and c

than $220000000000.00 in 2021, almost $1.00 times the size of russian chinese trade or back to robin mills, chief executive officer of commerce, energy in dubai. robin, what do you make of this deal? is this a sign that beijing is willing to support russia as economy against possible sanctions? from the west? i said in a more limited way than this, you know, chinese guesstimate has been growing very strongly trying to secure the supplies liquefied natural gas prices among the high the markets quite tight. so this is certainly of a challenge with china, and this is a more limited deal than the very grand plans. this is gas coming from an offshore island in russia. it's not connected to the rest of the russian system. this is gas, doesn't really have a hollow, otherwise. it's quite a nice still trying to get access to gas. but without fundamentally changing the relationship with russia yet. right brushes always been pushing for much granted there, you know, we have to see if that will come. right. you see a limited deal, but the 2 countries say it's mutually beneficial energy partnership. ho