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Oil trading profits soar for energy majors who made storage bets

Major oil companies including Equinor, Shell and commodity trader Glencore make sky-high profits from so-called contango plays following the oil price collapse.

Photo: Dronebase Dronebase/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
By Javier Blas and Lars Erik Taraldsen, Bloomberg News
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