Publisher's Synopsis
This book gives a detailed monographic description of the main commodities: crude oil, natural gas, coal, uranium, iron, manganese, aluminium, chromium, nickel, cobalt, titanium, copper, lead, zinc, gold, silver, platinum group metals, rare metals including molybdenum, tungsten and tin, industrial minerals, diamond and gems, food commodities and livestock. This book includes characteristics of the world's crude oil and natural gas network, information on crude oil, LNG, and coal ports and terminals, tanker and LNG fleet, new world pipeline projects, etc. Information on geopolitics and geoeconomy of commodities as well as comparative and correlation analysis of commodity prices are also given.
