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 »Azerbaijan’s Contract(s) of the Century
August 26th, 2007
Enjoyed this interesting analysis of the Caspian pipeline wars. We have discussed the Trans-Caspian Pipline Project in earlier posts but, in this report, John C. K. Daly takes a close look at Azerbaijan’s future promise and potential perils related to the development of its oil and natural gas resources. Was particularly interested in some of […]
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