China’s Expanding Petroleum Ties with Sudan
July 23rd, 2007
Noticed this article in the Wall Street Journal a few weeks back detailing China’s growing energy-related relationship with Sudan. Interestingly, Sudan is identified as being among Beijing’s major oil suppliers (having sent China 4.7 million metric tons of crude in the first five months of this year, a fivefold increase over the same period of […]
Read more »CNPC’s deal with Turkmengas … really a done deal for the first non-Russian route for gas exports out of Central Asia?
July 18th, 2007
Given Turkmenistan’s tendency to “revisit†agreements (especially when other potential customers such as Turkey, Pakistan, Europe, and Russia are also knocking on the door re: buying gas), it may be prudent to wait and see how this deal shakes out, but certainly another good example of China’s (via CNPC) efforts to lock up alternatives to […]
Read more »The Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) Pipeline
July 17th, 2007
Via RIA Novosti, news that Iran, Pakistan, and India have agreed on a formula for the price of natural gas to be pumped through a pipeline that will link the three countries. According to the report, the deal has “…removed the main obstacle to the signing of a three-way agreement on building the 2,300 km […]
Read more »Investing in North Korea…
July 16th, 2007
Noticed in today’s Wall Street Journal that Orascom Construction Industries S.A.E. of Cairo is going to invest US$115 million in a North Korean cement plant. Realize there have been private initiatives in the past (a Chinese developer’s plan to build an industrial park near the border with China, and Hyundai Asan Co. efforts to build […]
Read more »BRICs & MORE-ter …. and The Curious Case of the Missing N-11
July 14th, 2007
Justin Fox offered an interesting 12 July post on the Time blog titled “Is it really BRICs, or just ICs?†in which he suggests that the use of the term BRIC may be somewhat misleading as some may interpret it to suggest that Brazil & Russia (BR) offer equally compelling arguments for global economic impact […]
Read more »Gazprom reconsiders “going it alone” in Shtokman…
July 8th, 2007
Interesting change of pace by Gazprom: first, allowing foreign participation in the project; and second, the possibility of including an LNG plant in the project which could supply the U.S. Seems likely they have concluded they’re going to need additional capital and expertise to develop this find.  Gazprom close to Shtokman gas field deal Gazprom […]
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