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Aug 2014
6m 3s

Questions abound regarding Kurdish crude...

S&P Global Commodity Insights
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In the inaugural edition of this podcast, Platts senior oil news editors and Capitol Hill newshounds Herman Wang and Brian Scheid discuss the possible political motives for a tanker of Kurdish crude to idle off the Texas coast as well as how companies are trying to unravel oil condensate processing... 
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