China could also play a role as a big buyer of oil, to stock up supply for future use as prices decline.
So, most of the time, a buyer of palm oil will be trading with an intermediary that combines production from multiple farms.
The biggest buyer of cottonseed oil in the world is Frito-Lay.
India, the second-largest buyer of Iranian oil after China, was among countries that won a reprieve last month for significantly cutting its imports from Tehran.
They will want to preserve their alliance with America, which is the biggest buyer of Saudi oil and has traditionally protected the country from threatening neighbours, such as Iran and Iraq.
Ecuador auctioned the crude oil it had seized from Perenco and the only buyer was Petroecuador.
In fact, the buyer will have no clue where that oil actually came from.
The commercial aviation industry is eager to become a major buyer of biofuels as a hedge against oil price spikes that can wipe out years of profit.
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It was a smallish buyer and a member of the RSPO, with a palm-oil policy in line with the industry standard.
Pipelines remain costly to build, and a buyer has to be found and a price (generally linked to that of oil) agreed on before construction can start.
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This is very much in line with Mr. Chavez's pronouncements that he wants to find markets for his oil other than having to depend principally on the U.S. as his main buyer.
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The second thing buoying MLPs is that there's a buyer's market for pipelines and other so-called midstream assets, which asset-cutting big oil companies and bankruptcy-mired Enron are selling off.
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