Risk Wire › 18 Sep 2026
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Risk Wire — 18 September 2026
Trump's Russian-oil tariff bill has left India walking a tighter balancing act, at least two LNG shipments transited Hormuz this week as producers push for more, and the UK moved to clear a battery-storage backlog clogging its grid queue.
Oil / Products
Sourced from Bloomberg’s Energy Daily.
New US legislation lets Trump impose tariffs of up to 100% on major buyers of Russian oil, including India, which currently sources roughly 40% of its crude from Moscow. — Bloomberg
Risk lens: Bullish (non-Russian crude premium) — forcing India to replace up to 40% of its Russian-linked barrels would tighten the pool of alternative supply available to the market.
LNG
Sourced from Bloomberg’s Energy Daily.
At least two LNG shipments transited the Strait of Hormuz this week as producers push for more transits through a market still short of supply and facing surging prices. — Bloomberg
Risk lens: Bullish (JKM/TTF basis) — a modest pickup in transits doesn’t retire the chokepoint premium still priced into global LNG.
Gas & Power
Sourced from Bloomberg’s Green Daily.
The UK’s energy watchdog proposed new fees on a ballooning queue of battery-storage projects awaiting grid connections, aiming to squeeze out those unlikely to ever be built. — Bloomberg
Risk lens: Neutral (UK grid-connection queue) — clearing speculative applications should speed real storage capacity online, but the near-term effect is fewer, not faster, connections.
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