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About A Blue Stream

Ask me what dominates conversations as we step into 2025, and I’d answer without hesitation: gas. The topic has been dissected in detail by industry experts and news outlets, underscoring its critical importance. But beyond the headlines and analyses, a few lesser-discussed developments stand out, and they’re worth exploring.

The cracks in Iranian urea production started showing in December, as Iran’s gas shortages disrupted urea production. What followed was a ripple effect: Turkey ramped up purchases, creating unexpected openings for Russian suppliers to bypass Indian tenders and secure better deals elsewhere. Egyptian producers weren’t far behind, leveraging the same dynamics to their advantage. 

The end of Russian gas transit through Ukraine. Despite nearly three years of war, Russian gas continued to flow to the EU via Ukraine’s pipelines-a lifeline for many. But that era is now over, leaving all sides grappling with the fallout: 

Russia: Stuck with an oversupply of gas and limited capacity to develop new markets.  

Ukraine: Losing a critical source of transit revenue and facing rising energy costs in neighbouring Moldova and Romania. To complicate matters, the pipeline system could now become a target for Russian missiles. What’s next? A potential sale of Ukraine’s gas infrastructure, including its storage facilities, to an external player. 

The EU: Confronting intensified energy insecurity. European TTF prices have already soared to $15/MMBTu—almost double the price from a year ago.

Amid this upheaval, China emerges as the clear winner. With few alternative buyers for Russian gas, China is positioned to capitalise, potentially securing supplies on highly favourable terms. 

Meanwhile, whispers of a Qatari-Turkish pipeline through Syria were met with a firm denial from Qatar. But I can’t shake the feeling that this story is far from over. Keep an eye on this development—it may resurface in unexpected ways.

#imstory #fertilisers #fertilizers #gas #urea #market #china #iran #russia #ukraine #europe #qatar #syria #turkey #analysis 

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“There weren’t many moneylenders when I was growing up, but now a lot of farmers are taking loans because today they need money for machines, pesticides and fertilisers,” says Sukhlal Suliya, of Badgaon village (Madhya Pradesh). "We used cow dung, which was good for the soil and didn’t cost us any money. But then the government started advertising urea and pesticides by saying it will give you more crops. Now, 40 years later, these are still used by most farmers and they spend so much on fertilisers and pesticides, which are destroying the soil. And then they sell  in the markets for very little profit, through middlemen, who buy the produce for far less money than what they sell to customers. So farmers make very little money,” he adds, with sadness.

Nia Chari and Akil Ravi, '‘I like the village, but there is no life left here’', People's Archive of Rural India (PARI)

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do vegans use fertiliser with animal poop in it? i can’t imagine making some from my own animals (if i had any) would be harmful but does buying it in-store contribute to animal agriculture?

Purchasing products made from animal waste does contribute towards the profits of animal agriculture, unfortunately. There is no avoiding this in the crops we ourselves consume, but when we’re growing it’s very easy to avoid. Plant-based or fungi based fertilisers are not at all a specialist item and are widely available, so it’s easily avoided.

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Rising fertiliser prices, driven by conflict in the Middle East and volatile gas markets, are exposing a major weakness in UK farming. Nitrogen fertilisers—vital for crop yields—depend heavily on natural gas, with the UK importing around 60% of its supply. We should be using fertilisers developed in our own country from sustainable sources. Also we need to change farming methods to avoid the intensive use of artificial fertilisers.

Crisis in UK farming caused by the war in the Middle East!

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Still trying to put food on the table?

Have you noticed how so many organisations seem to have no, ‘institutional memory?’ This is where somebody suggests a course of action and somebody else can say, ‘we have tried that and this is how it failed.’ (Or to be more positive, ‘we tried that and these are the benefits we got at the time.’)So it is with the supermarkets. Back in 2023 energy prices soared, the growers on fixed price…

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