There is no unified global energy market and energy security is no longer global, Russia's powerful oil executive Igor Sechin said amid talk for countries coming together to check volatility in prices and ensure smooth transition to net zero. Speaking at the India Energy Week here, Sechin, chief executive of Rosneft, said all principles of market trading have been destroyed and market pricing and contract law abolished. Russia was slapped with sanctions by some Western countries following the war in Ukraine. Some countries in Europe stopped buying contracted natural gas. Russian crude oil was shunned, leading to it being traded at a discount to international rates. This meant that while all major benchmark crude oil moved in a particular fashion, Russian crude was traded at discounts as high as USD 40 per barrel. "There is no unified global energy market, and energy security is no longer global," he said. Russia, he said, achieved more significant results than many of the world's
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