European oil giants have recently increased their purchases of Russian crude oil. According to the news of the Observer Network on March 6, Shell, the world's second largest oil company, recently purchased 100,000 metric tons of Russian crude oil. The deal also set the largest level of concessions for oil trading on record. Shell received a discount of $28.50 per barrel, and through the deal, Shell expects arbitrage to exceed $20 million. It is worth noting that a week ago, on February 28, Shell just announced a boycott of Russian crude oil. Less than a week later, Shell completed the transformation of "true incense", which reflects the shortcomings of "anti-Russian" political correctness on the one hand, and highlights the necessity of Russian-European cooperation on the other hand.
In a statement on the deal, Shell noted that Russia occupies a very important position in the global energy market and Shell is trying to find alternatives, but that is a complex process, and European demand can not wait.
Since Russia formally countered NATO's eastward expansion, the United States, Britain and other countries have launched large-scale sanctions against Russia in a hysterical posture, and even sacrificed a "financial nuclear bomb" to "remove" most of Russia's non-crude oil trading banks from the global settlement system dominated by them. The United States, Britain and other countries have built an iron curtain of public opinion and finance against Russia in a short period of time, on the one hand, they continue to export arms to Ukraine, trying to prolong the Conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and on the other hand, they are squeezing and suppressing Russia in all aspects.
Under the balance of terror between the nuclear powers, the United States and Russia have essentially entered a state of "war." Russian President Vladimir Putin bluntly said that the sanctions imposed by the United States and Britain are "declaring war." However, this war is not a direct war of the entity, but a financial war, a network war, a public opinion war, a scientific and technological war, and a diplomatic war, and the United States has mobilized all its strength to "encircle and suppress" Russia and act as the actual offensive party in this US-Russian "war." Russia, on the other hand, sought a campaign-level breakthrough with "special military operations" under the "strategic defensive" posture. The "war" between the United States and Russia has already broken out, and in this "war" that does not see the smoke of gunfire, the energy field is one of Russia's several advantageous areas, or even one of them.
Under the comprehensive squeeze of the West, Russia's extremely restrained "special military operations" in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, desperate counterattack, worthy of the name. But the all-out strike of the United States and Britain does not mean that Russia's future is dark. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have pointed out that the West's attack on Russia can also be an opportunity, and Russia can take this opportunity to develop some capabilities that should have been developed, which is of strategic significance to Russia's future development. Is the total blockade of the West terrible? China, which pursues self-improvement, has given the answer with 70 years of hard work. Russia, obviously, is also accelerating its exploration of its own independent development path.
The Shell company, which secretly bought Russian oil and made a double profit, also pointed out the long-term characteristics of the commodity transaction of oil and natural gas in its statement to the outside world. The irreplaceability of Russian energy is reflected in three aspects. The first is the inherent advantages of Russia's vast land and abundant resources, followed by the energy infrastructure advantages brought about by Russia's leading position in the energy industry, especially Russia across the Eurasian continent, and the price advantages and supply advantages brought by its long-term construction of oil and gas pipeline systems cannot be replaced by any country in the world.
In the case of the already tight global energy supply caused by the new crown epidemic, in terms of production capacity alone, it is an impossible task for other oil-producing countries to fill Russian production capacity in the short term.
Under such circumstances, the United States, Britain and other countries have frequently exerted pressure and separated Sino-Russian relations, and have not allowed China to purchase Russian energy in a vain attempt to suppress Russia. China, on the other hand, has given the answer with practical actions. China and Russia signed oil and gas supply increase agreements on February 3 and 4, respectively, and the two sides threw away the US dollar in the settlement currency library of the new agreement. At the beginning of March, the two countries agreed on the construction of a new natural gas pipeline and russia's annual transportation of 50 billion cubic meters of natural gas to China. The strategic cooperation between China and Russia based on win-win results has made the West look red and continues to inject certainty into the turbulent global economic situation.