China: A Bull in Iran’s Oil “Shop”
December 10th, 2007
As reported in The Financial Times, Iran signed a $2bn oil contract with Sinopec of China, sending a signal to western companies that they might miss out on potentially lucrative contracts with one of the world’s biggest energy exporters if they continued to heed US-led sanctions against Tehran. As the article notes: “…The contract to […]
Read more »Iran’s Planned Nabucco Pipeline
November 29th, 2007
From Der Spiegel, an interesting look at Iran’s desires to use its massive gas reserves and construction of its planned Nabucco pipeline to wield influence over Europe. As the article notes: “Iran is planning to leverage its massive gas reserves to increase its influence in Western Europe — by fair means or foul. If selling […]
Read more »Iranian Oil Swaps
September 3rd, 2007
An interesting analysis of Iran’s efforts to seek out oil swaps via John C.K. Daly and Energy Daily. As Daly points out, five nations share the Caspian’s coastline — Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran — and, when the Kashagan field comes online, there will be an enormous disparity between production and transit capabilities that […]
Read more »A New North-South Iranian Pipeline?
August 27th, 2007
According to today’s WSJ, Iran is planning to construct a new north-south oil pipeline in a bid to raise the volume of crude oil swap capacity with its northern neighbors from 150,000 barrels a day to around 1 million barrels a day. The plan, which is intended to display Iran’s energy capabilities in the region, […]
Read more »Iran’s Looming Energy “Catastrophe”?
August 24th, 2007
Iran is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries’ (OPEC) number-two crude oil producer, and is also pinning major hopes on its gas reserves, estimated to be the second-largest proven reserves in the world after Russia. However, as noted in this recent Middle East Times article, Iran’s sacked oil minister issued a parting warning to President […]
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