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🗓️ 9 August 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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For decades, the global centre for oil trading has been Geneva, Switzerland. But Russia’s war in Ukraine changed that. Sanctions have made it harder for western traders to move Russian oil. Now, traders are flocking to a new trading hub that has no restrictions on oil from Russia: the United Arab Emirates. The FT’s energy correspondent Tom Wilson explains how this shift has helped the UAE replace Switzerland, and whether the global energy industry is shifting away from western economies.
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Update: A new version of this episode was uploaded on August 9, 2023 to correct that Fujairah is roughly an hour’s drive east from Dubai, not west.
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For further reading:
How Dubai became ‘the new Geneva’ for Russian oil trade
Switzerland questions oil trader over sidestep of Russian sanctions
Letter: Energy trading is opaque — and that suits Big Oil
Switzerland/Paramount: block loopholes which swerve oil sanctions
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0:27.7 | AI and take action today. I'm at the Fijera oil terminal in the mountainous Northeastern corner of the United Arab Emirates on the Gulf of Oman. |
0:41.0 | The sun's high in the sky and behind me to my left and to my right |
0:49.1 | I think there's rows and rows of enormous oil storage facilities. |
0:55.0 | Earlier this year, the F.T's energy correspondent Tom Wilson took a trip to |
1:00.0 | Fujaira. |
1:01.0 | It's a port city in the United Arab Emirates. The city is roughly an |
1:05.4 | hour's drive east from Dubai and sits along a major shipping route in the |
1:09.2 | Gulf of Oman. The port symbol is a big blue F on a white circle and the entrance is a big sweeping concrete blue wave. |
1:20.0 | Cars queue up to get access. |
1:25.0 | Behind the barriers, you can see oil terminals, |
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