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Louisiana Light • 5 days | 89.16 | +0.62 | +0.70% | ||
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Bonny Light • 2 days | 91.29 | -2.25 | -2.41% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 89.57 | -1.20 | -1.32% | ||
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Mars US • 165 days | 77.67 | -1.57 | -1.98% | ||
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Gasoline • 36 mins | 2.822 | +0.038 | +1.38% |
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Bonny Light • 2 days | 91.29 | -2.25 | -2.41% | ||
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Girassol • 2 days | 91.81 | -2.21 | -2.35% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 89.57 | -1.20 | -1.32% |
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Peace Sour • 12 hours | 78.61 | -0.25 | -0.32% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 12 hours | 81.66 | -0.25 | -0.31% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 12 hours | 88.61 | -0.25 | -0.28% | ||
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Central Alberta • 12 hours | 79.01 | -0.25 | -0.32% |
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Eagle Ford • 2 days | 81.89 | -0.25 | -0.30% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 2 days | 81.75 | -0.25 | -0.30% | ||
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Kansas Common • 17 hours | 75.50 | -0.25 | -0.33% | ||
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Buena Vista • 5 days | 89.36 | +0.64 | +0.72% |
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James Durso
James D. Durso is the Managing Director of Corsair LLC, a supply chain consultancy. In 2013 to
2015, he was the Chief Executive Officer of AKM Consulting, a provider of business development and international project management services in Central and Southwest Asia to U.S. clients in a variety of industries including telecommunications, homeland security, and defense. Since 2013, he has mentored graduate students at The George Washington University, Elliot School of International Affairs on the roles of members of the Country Team at an American embassy, security assistance, and the functions of military advisors attached to an embassy.
Latest articles from James
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Iraq Hopes to Expand Economic Relationship With the U.S.
Twenty-one years ago, the U.S. and its allies invaded Iraq in the erroneous belief that the country possessed weapons of mass destruction and was allied…
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How Afghanistan Could Benefit From Better Relations with Its Neighbors
After 20 years of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, Central Asia is increasingly connected to the Islamic Emirate and is building the foundation for sustained…
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Uzbekistan and China Quietly Cement Regional Alliance
While the U.S., Russia and Europe are trying to quell (or aggravate) crises simultaneously in Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Israel/Gaza, the Persian Gulf and the Red…
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Why a Complete Withdrawal from Iraq May Benefit the U.S.
It seemed like a good idea at the time… On Jan. 4, 2024, the U.S. assassinated Mushtaq Jawad Kazim al-Jawari, a commander in an Iran-linked Iraqi militia.…
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Will Iran Become Part Of This Important Trade Corridor?
Azerbaijan’s late September military operation to retake the ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, the self-styled “Republic of Artsakh,” caused most of the residents to flee to Armenia and the…
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Biden Met With Central Asian Leaders To Discuss Trade And Development
It was a day 32 years in the making, but the American president finally met the assembled leaders of the five Central Asian republics on…
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When Will Washington Make Central Asia A Priority?
The American filmmaker Woody Allen said, ““Eighty percent of success is showing up.” If he is correct, America is not succeeding in Central Asia. But the…
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Afghanistan’s Quest For Water Worries Central Asian Neighbors
Recently, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported the progress of Afghanistan’s Qosh Tepa Irrigation Canal, $670 million, 285-kilometer canal to irrigate 550,000 hectares of land by…
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Iran-Pakistan Pipeline Suspension Could Backfire For The U.S.
America’s economic siege of Iran has been costly for Tehran’s neighbors, and now it is Pakistan’s turn to pick up the tab. On 7 August,…
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Coup In Niger Could Derail This Strategic Pipeline
Almost twenty years to the day after Ambassador Joseph Wilson wrote his op-ed “What I Didn’t Find in Africa” about his visit to Niger to confirm if…
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Who Will Solve The Water Conflict Between Iran And Afghanistan
In late May, shots were exchanged by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and the Taliban near a border post in Iran’s Southwest Nimroz province. Each side blamed…
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Iran And Uzbekistan Look To Boost Central Asian Cooperation
The Central Asian republics are self-organizing in the wake of the NATO evacuation from Afghanistan in August 2021. The republics are wedged between Russia, China,…
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Who Will Compete With China In Central Asia?
Instead of being “Being Fustest with the Mostest” in Central Asia, an area of intense interest to China and Russia, the U.S. and Europe may…
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Is The U.S. Preparing To Punish OPEC?
In early May, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary was reportedly considering a bill to pressure the OPEC oil producers’ group to stop making output…
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Will The U.S. And Turkmenistan Finally Grow Closer?
In April 2023, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Rasit Meredow, the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Turkmenistan for a working meeting in Washington, D.C.…
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Kazakhstan Enters New Era Amid Strong Demand For Its Commodities
Kazakhstan’s president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev believes “Never let a crisis go to waste.” Tokayev has been on a roll since January 2022, when the government requested…
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Is Washington's Uzbekistan Strategy A Blueprint For Central Asia?
The United States and Uzbekistan recently concluded the second meeting of their Strategic Partnership Dialogue. As Uzbekistan is the most populous country in Central Asia…
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Why Washington Needs A Friendlier Approach To This Major Gas Producer
In September, a bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives called on the U.S. Secretary of State to impose sanctions on the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria…
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NOPEC Bill Won’t Bring Oil Prices Down
“Nobody f*cks with a Biden,” said the U.S. president, and the oil ministers of the member countries of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries…
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What Iran Should Do If JCPOA Fails
The negotiations to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) between Iran and the P5+1 (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States,…
