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 […]
Read more »Go, Go, GOPEC…
December 24th, 2008
Via The Financial Times, a report on the recent meeting of gas exporting countries during which ministers meeting in Moscow transformed what had been an occasional talking shop into a formal body with a permanent secretariat. While, for now, Russia is probably right that “GOPEC” cannot control output and prices, (unlike oil, natural gas relies […]
Read more »China Energy Companies: Go East (and North, South, and West) Young Man!
December 24th, 2008
Via Stratfor (subscription required), a report that China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) and other Chinese energy companies are actively hunting for new investments in foreign oil and natural gas projects. As the article notes: “…The combination of a global credit shortage and low oil prices has left many energy firms around the world in dire […]
Read more »LUKoil’s Iberian Ambitions
December 18th, 2008
Via Stratfor (subscription required), an update on Lukoil’s dalliance’s with Repsol YPF. As we have discussed previously, LUKoil, Russia’s largest privately-owned oil firm, is considering forming a partnership with Spanish energy company Repsol YPF. As the article notes: “…Spain’s Repsol YPF, a privately owned energy company with major assets in Latin America, and LUKoil, Russia’s […]
Read more »Calling Pyongyang … Orascom Eyes Cell Phone Venture in North Korea
December 17th, 2008
Via The Financial Times, news that Orascom is looking at setting up a mobile phone venture in North Korea. As the article notes “…Setting up a mobile phone service in North Korea – an authoritarian state that has banned mobiles – may sound like a misguided venture but Egypt’s Orascom reckons it can defy conventional […]
Read more »A Future Middle East of Failed States?
December 17th, 2008
Via The Asia Times, a highly pessimistic look at the economies of the largest Muslim countries, namely Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey. While I do not wholly agree with the thesis of the piece, I felt it useful to present The Times’ views. As the article notes: “…Iran’s President Mahmud Ahmadinejad controls Iran through a kleptocracy […]
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