Myanmar To Pipe Natural Gas to China
December 30th, 2008
Via Energy Daily, a report that Myanmar has signed a deal with South Korean and Indian companies to pipe natural gas from the energy-rich nation’s offshore fields to China. According to the article: “…The Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise inked the deal last Wednesday with South Korean companies Daewoo and Korea Gas Corporation and Indian […]
Read more »Caspian Energy in 2008: “The Best of Times, The Worst of Times”
December 30th, 2008
Via Energy Daily, a summary of 2008 for the five petro-states ringing the Caspian. As the article notes “…Three of these are the former Soviet republics of Russia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. Iran, subject to nearly three decades of U.S.-led sanctions, has longstanding problems as a result that have stymied foreign investment there, while Turkmenistan’s fiscal […]
Read more »Gazprom’s Financial Woes
December 29th, 2008
Via The International Herald Tribune (and New York Times), an insightful report on Gazprom’s recent financial woes. As the article notes: “…A year ago, Gazprom, the Russian natural gas monopoly, aspired to be the largest corporation in the world. Buoyed by high oil prices and political backing from the Kremlin, it had already achieved third […]
Read more »Russia’s Energy Deals with Serbia
December 26th, 2008
Via Stratfor (subscription required), interesting analysis on the recent “political agreement” signed on Dec. 24 by Serbian President Boris Tadic and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to construct the South Stream gas pipeline through Serbia. Additionally, as noted in the report, the Serbian delegation also signed a long-awaited agreement with Gazprom Neft while in MOscow for […]
Read more »China’s Look East To Africa Goes South…
December 26th, 2008
Via Africa-Asia Confidential, an interesting report on how the economic meltdown and spread of cholera across Zimbabwe and into South Africa has emboldened China, India, and Japan – which have been promoting the virtues of Asia’s non-intervention in African politics – to make increasingly direct criticisms of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) regime. […]
Read more »Tajikistan Attempts To Grow Its Gas Industry
December 26th, 2008
Via Energy Daily, an interesting look at Tajikistan’s efforts to grow its gas industry. As the article notes, while the former Soviet republics ringing the Caspian — Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan — have been the object of intense struggle between Moscow and Washington since the collapse of communism in 1991 in their new energy “Great […]
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