Yukos export fears jolt market

摘要

Beleaguered Russian oil giant Yukos claimed last week that bailiffs had told it to halt crude production and exports.Russia's justice ministry denied the claim.But this failed to stop prices spiking up by US1/bl on 28 July.Yukos made the claim after receiving a just6ice minitry order that its subsidiary Yugan-skneftegaz-which produces 1mn b/d-must stop taking any action that could result in the transfer of its property.