6 August 2026.
Alkagesta CEO Orkhan Rustamov has been featured in European Business Magazine with an opinion piece examining the structural shift underway in global oil markets following months of conflict and disruption in the Gulf. European Business Magazine is a pan-European publication covering business strategy, economics, and market trends across the continent. It focuses on corporate affairs, investment, and policy developments, and is widely read among executives, decision-makers, and financial professionals across Europe.
The piece argues that the oil market’s expectation of a return to stable pricing is no longer realistic. Tracing Brent Crude’s extraordinary range — from around $60 to nearly double that over the past six months — Orkhan Rustamov places the current volatility in the context of longer-term price history, noting that while oil has historically spent much of its time hovering between $50 and $80 a barrel, the events of the past six months have fundamentally disrupted that baseline assumption.
Commenting in the piece, Rustamov said: “The security and stability the Gulf depends on — indeed the world depends on — for oil price normality has been shattered.”
The full article is available here: There is no ‘normal’ for the oil markets to return to