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November 1, 2026 · 1 min read

Interesting viewpoint, from a former Oilpro and Oil Price moderator

Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager

Interesting; adding this viewpoint to my thinkingnesses …

/ edit; for years, I was a volunteer moderator on the largest oil & gas forum in the world (Oilpro) before it was forcibly taken down by a competing website (Rigzone) and then was asked to be a volunteer moderator on the Oil Price forum, before it was later hijacked by anti-American CCP bots (really).
^ this is all 100% true, not joking.

I know it can be hard to tell from my usually pointless and absurdly surreal posts here, but international oil & gas + its intertwined global politics is one of my interests 😃

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FROM THE THREAD

Tom's notes 2

  1. Tom Kirkman

    Glenn T. R. accurate

  2. Tom Kirkmanreplying to Gregory Grímer

    EU buys Russian hydrocarbons though third parties, such as China and India.

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