The United States is using energy as a political weapon and its ‘golden era’ of energy could turn out to be an ‘era of energy colonialism’ for all other market participants, Igor Sechin, the chief executive of Russia’s largest oil producer Rosneft, said at a forum in Russia on Thursday. There is no doubt that the U.S. is using energy as a political weapon on a mass scale, Sechin said at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum today, as posted on Rosneft’s website. mposing sanctions or even the threat of sanctions have a destructive effect on the global energy ecosystem, Sechin said, criticizing America’s approach to energy dominance. “The golden era of American energy is now underway,” U.S. President Donald Trump said last month, while U.S. officials have started to refer to the U.S. exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as “freedom gas.” The United States has long been […]