Türkiye, Oman Sign Deal to Purchase 1.4B Cubic Metres of Gas Annually
January 31st, 2023
Via TRT World, a report on a new deal between Türkiye, Oman sign deal to purchase 1.4B cubic metres of gas per year: Türkiye is signing a new gas deal with Oman, the Turkish energy minister has announced, a move to diversify Ankara’s gas supplies. “We will purchase 1.4 billion cubic metres of gas annually and […]
Read more »An Energy Crisis + Geopolitics = A New-Look Gulf
September 23rd, 2022
Via The Economist, a report on how a richer, more powerful, and more volatile Gulf is emerging: In eight weeks, roughly 1m football fans will descend on Qatar for the World Cup, many of them travelling via neighbouring cities such as Dubai and Abu Dhabi. They will find a Gulf in the midst of a […]
Read more »Oman Offer To Build Gwadar Railway Conjures Pakistan Port’s Past
September 4th, 2022
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, a report on an Omani offer to build Gwadar’s railway which conjures up memories of Pakistan port’s past: A company from Oman is looking to invest in a train line that would link the Pakistani port town of Gwadar — envisioned as a key stop on China’s Belt and Road infrastructure network […]
Read more »Twilight of Petrostates
August 1st, 2020
Via The Economist, an article on the impact of the demise of easy oil money: Their budgets don’t add up anymore. Algeria needs the price of Brent crude, an international benchmark for oil, to rise to $157 dollars a barrel. Oman needs it to hit $87. No Arab oil producer, save tiny Qatar, can balance […]
Read more »Will Caspian Trade Flow into the Persian Gulf?
May 31st, 2020
Via Window on Eurasia, commentary on the potential for north-south trade in Central Asia: Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan have agreed to promote the expansion of rail traffic from their countries through Iran to Oman and thus to the world ocean, a path that China will likely be the biggest beneficiary of and that will challenge Moscow’s […]
Read more »Tycoon Takes Investors Heli Skiing to Show Them Pakistan’s Safe
October 4th, 2017
Via Bloomberg, an interesting look at Pakistan: In the northern snow-capped peaks of Pakistan, Zia Chishti disembarked off a helicopter and skied downhill on a mission to convince investors, clients and company executives that the nation once called by The Economist “the world’s most dangerous place” is now safe for business. Chishti, who grew up […]
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