not a good look
morning
00-9001 USAFSOC C-32B on ground at JBA from McGuire AFB depart.
This was on 1230
FORTE 10 USAF Global Hawk drone from Malta entering southern Ukraine
A little recon before this perhaps
SAM353 USAF C-40B departed Cyprus, Larnaka Int'l airport after a ground stop
On descent for Manama, Bahrain
This AC is State Dept. and used by KANSAS many times
Departed JBA on 0103 with a ground stop at Shannon, Ireland then on to Cyprus with the date switch to 0104
TERRA97 USAFSOC C-32B departed JBA sw after quick ground stop
OPEC+ Nears Consensus on Holding Oil Output Steady Next Month
OPEC+ was nearing a consensus that would hold its oil output steady next month, after the group rejected Russia’s proposal for a production increase. Negotiations were ongoing and not all details were agreed, one delegate said. Formal talks scheduled for Tuesday afternoon hadn’t yet started after being pushed back, said another delegate.
If the agreement is finalized, its significance would go beyond the output increase of 500,000 barrels a day the market had, prior to this week, been expecting for February. It also could have some bearing on similar supply boosts traders had penciled in for March and April. The prevailing view in the group that the highly infectious new variant of Covid-19 could undermine the fragile oil-market recovery could mean a cautious approach to any production hikes for several months.
Brent crude jumped 3% to $52.65 a barrel at 2:42 p.m. in London. The deal would be a victory for Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, who has consistently sought to keep a tighter rein on output than many of his allies. In two days of ministerial talks, Russia found itself isolated, facing near-universal opposition to its proposal.
Last month, the prince failed to impose his will on the group, and ended up reluctantly supporting a 500,000 barrel-a-day production hike in January. This time around, a majority of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies were on the kingdom’s side, opposing a proposal from Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak for another 500,000 barrel-a-day increase next month, delegates said, asking not to be named because the talks were private.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/opec-nears-consensus-on-holding-oil-output-steady-next-month-1.1544015
https://www.macrotrends.net/2566/crude-oil-prices-today-live-chart
Trafigura Got $7 Billion Russian Loan for Arctic Oil Deal
Trafigura Group’s purchase of a stake in Rosneft PJSC’s flagship Arctic oil project was funded by a $7 billion loan organized by a Russian bank, according to documents that shed new light on the trading house’s biggest-ever deal.
The two companies last week said they had completed a deal for a 10% stake in Vostok Oil, without providing a value. Trafigura had said the purchase had been “majority financed by long-term debt,” but didn’t name the lenders.
According to corporate filings in Singapore, which haven’t previously been reported, the trading firm agreed to a 5.775 billion-euro ($7 billion) loan facility with Credit Bank of Moscow PJSC on Dec. 23.
The documents offer the first official indication of the scale of Trafigura’s bet on the sprawling project, which Rosneft Chief Executive Officer Igor Sechin has said could produce 1 million barrels of oil a day by 2027. The investment runs counter to the reluctance among many Western majors and investors to back big new oil projects, especially in environmentally fragile areas like the Arctic.
In addition to the loan for a fully owned Trafigura entity CB Enterprises Pte Ltd., through which it bought the stake, the trading house invested a small amount of its own funds, according to a person familiar with the transaction, who asked not to be named discussing sensitive information.
That implies that the deal was worth more than $7 billion making it Trafigura’s largest ever acquisition by far and valuing the 10% stake in Vostok Oil at roughly the same level as the book value of Trafigura itself. It also suggests a valuation of $70 billion for the whole project – at the upper end of most analysts’ estimates, and more than Rosneft’s entire market capitalization of $62 billion.
moar
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/trafigura-got-7-billion-russian-loan-for-arctic-oil-deal-1.1544029
from Dec. 15
How Trafigura Extracted Record Profits From Oil Market Carnage
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottcarpenter/2020/12/15/oil-trader-trafigura-extracted-record-profits-from-oil-market-carnage/?sh=98f3ab174b7a
Trafigura Group Pte. Ltd. is a Singaporean multinational commodity trading company founded in 1993 that trades in base metals and energy. It is legally registered and headquartered in Singapore. Farringford N.V., registered in Curaçao, is the ultimate legal domicile (parent company). It is the world's second largest private oil trader after Vitol and the world's largest private metals trader.
Trafigura was set up by Claude Dauphin and Eric de Turckheim. It split off from a group of companies managed by Marc Rich in 1993.
and a famous pardon from Bubba in 2001
Before his death, in September 2015, Dauphin owned less than 20% of the company, with the rest owned by 500 senior staff. Trafigura has been named or involved in several scandals, particularly the 2006 Ivory Coast toxic waste dump, which left up to 100,000 people with skin rashes, headaches and respiratory problems. The company was also involved in the Iraq Oil-for-Food Scandal. Trafigura has built or purchased stakes in pipelines, mines, smelters, ports and storage terminals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafigura
from Sept 2009
Inside Trafigura: Accusations, sour deals and friends in high places
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/16/inside-trafigura-pollution-conservatives
Five Star Trust
https://www.slideshare.net/ernestrauthschild/five-star-trust
https://www.scribd.com/document/175648354/Five-Star-Trust-Origins-FBI-Redacted-Report
familiar with it for a number of years.
Ferrara tried to use that as backing for a mortgage and they pretty much threw him in jail to shut him up on some unrelated thang as I understand it
C_A denied it existed with the usual flowery language
Poppy tried to screw Ferrara out of his cut and the others made him the trustee so he wouldn't get offed by that crew.
or so they say…
kek
Some of them did for sure
yeah and then peeps wonder why Colby had an accident in the mid 90's
http://www.pythiapress.com/wartales/colby.htm
I may have screwed up the names Ferrara and Horn
There are some docs on the net that claim it was started in the 80's but it goes back to the 50's.
Trying to recall from memory
dindu nuffin!
https://twitter.com/USNavy/status/1346501768855887876?s=19
>not sure when the drugs started being an income source
Absolutely from the start
I think they had nowhere to put that amount after it started getting too big.
mostly SE Asia I think then they got cute and moved it stani land after Vietnam/Laos/Cambodia dropped from the headlines.
The French certainly helping there.
Then it went off the rails.
GTMO844 US Navy Beech Huron heading to Ft. Lauderdale first today
15-3086 USAF Dornier C-146a Wolfhound departing Homestead ARB after a ground stop-inbound from Eglin AFB-heading to San Juan, PR most likely
You see it when it habbens and then it's so unbelievable you sort of say …nahhh couldn't be.
But it was.
Why muh family think I'm crazy..they never paid any attention to much of anything and said "well what are YOU gonna do about it"
One of the last things said to them in 2018 was
"just wait…I'm patient unlike you…you'll see what many people have done about it soon".
"they may delay it but nothing can stop…."
Got a kick outta sending that one.
They prolly went "ja wuhhhhh" and then deleted it.
If they only saved the stuff from 2017 on they would have a pretty good pic of what has gone on since then.
Gives me the giggles when I think about nao.
Did not have much of that-kinda always on our own with all that.
Not too many frens but ones I had close.
Even they were not really taking any of it.
Sad but peeps make choices and I must respect that.
Yes LOTSA popcorn!
In a sort of selfish thang I can't wait to shove it all back but they had it already ya know?
>>35328
NIGHT76 USAF E-4B Nightwatch out of Dyess (7th Bomb Wing assigned to the Global Strike Command Eighth Air Force) and prolly had some upgrades and/or maintenance done here.
Back to Offutt from an overnight
A few times anons have thought AF1 was arriving at their neck 'o the woods when seeing these arrive at Dyes
This is the Sec. of Defense AC
CHILL22 USAF B-52 Stratofortress out of Offutt
was lucky not to have to deal with that much after '99
1099
I can't imagine being in today's "work environment"
Unless you are wakes and da boss of yourself
So hat off to peeps who have to stay quiet to keep that job-not easy
would not do well with the current expectations of that and did not for muh last professional "life"
NIGHT76 heading to Wright-Patterson AFB not Offutt