5 August 2026.
Alkagesta CEO Orkhan Rustamov has been featured in City A.M. with a opinion piece responding to recent coverage of oil price movements amid ongoing tensions in the Strait of Hormuz. CITY A.M. is a London‑based business and finance newspaper, widely read across the UK’s financial community. It focuses on markets, economics, corporate affairs, and policy commentary, and is known for its sharp, opinion‑driven editorial style. Distributed primarily in the City of London and Canary Wharf, it has a reputation and influential voice for professionals in banking, trading, fintech, and energy.
The piece argues that the market’s expectation of a return to stability is misplaced, noting that the last six months have demonstrated how even the world’s most sophisticated oil and gas infrastructure remains vulnerable to events beyond producers’ control. It points to accelerating pipeline projects in the UAE and Iraq as evidence that producers themselves are beginning to accept this new reality — and calls on traders and analysts to do the same.
Commenting in the piece, Rustamov said: “One of the key lessons from this whole episode in the Strait of Hormuz is that there is no longer a ‘normal’ to return to.”
The full article is available here: There’ll be no return to normal for oil
