Pipeline Politics: A Proposed Turkmenistan – Europe Connection
April 25th, 2014
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting analysis of a proposed Turkmenistan – Europe pipeline: Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimukhamedov (R) attends the opening ceremony at a refinery in Samandepe on Dec. 14, 2009. Summary The crisis in Ukraine has heightened Europe’s interest in diversifying energy supplies away from Russia, and the long discussed Trans-Caspian pipeline […]
Read more »North Korea: An Emerging Regional Crossroads
April 21st, 2014
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting analysis of North Korea’s potential as a regional crossroads in Asia: North Korea has attracted increased attention in recent weeks, less for its nuclear potential or missile tests and more for its potential as a transportation and energy corridor. On April 18, the lower house of Russia’s parliament ratified […]
Read more »How The Kurds Got Their Way: New Transitional Zones of Economic Cooperation In The Middle East
April 21st, 2014
Via Foreign Affairs, an interesting report on the emergence of Keep on truckin’: guarding fuel trucks in Haj Umran, Iraqi Kurdistan, July 2010. The surge of ethnic and sectarian strife in Syria and across the Middle East has led a number of analysts to predict the coming breakup of many Arab states. This potential upending […]
Read more »Development Via Regional Integration – Mongolia’s Chance For A Prosperous Future
April 18th, 2014
Via the Asian Development Bank, a look at how Mongolia could boost its economy through careful regional integration: Regional integration offers Mongolia the opportunity for a more prosperous future. But the country has lagged in this effort, which is surprising given its geographical location where bold integration initiatives have been launched, such as the People’s […]
Read more »Sinopec’s $1.2bn deal With Lukoil: China Moves Deeper Into Central Asia
April 15th, 2014
Courtesy of the Financial Times, a report on Sinopec’s recent acquisition of Lukoil assets in Kazakhstan: Lukoil has agreed to sell its stake in several oil projects in Kazakhstan to Sinopec for $1.2bn, in the latest of a string of Chinese investments in the country’s energy sector. The Russian company – the country’s largest private-sector […]
Read more »Delays At Kazakhstan’s Kashagan Energy Project Could Benefit Russia
April 15th, 2014
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an analysis of how delays in Kashagan could benefit Russia: A general view on June 30, 2013, shows the Bolashak oil plant on the Kashagan offshore oil field near Atyrau in Kazakhstan. Summary Reports have surfaced in recent weeks that production at the massive Kashagan oil project in Kazakhstan may […]
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