Iran and Sudan Begin to Execute Moves to Dominate Central & Western Africa
July 8th, 2013
Via Oil Price.com, an interesting look at Iranian and Sudanese efforts to dominate central & western Africa: The Central African Republic has become a key player, working under Sudanese and Iranian direction, in jihadist action, geared to take advantage of the West’s declining influence in Western and Central Africa, even if it challenges the interests […]
Read more »Mongolian Investor Heads For North Korea
July 4th, 2013
Via Business News Europe, an interesting article on a new venture aimed at North Korea: A small yet bold Mongolian firm is preparing to launch a new oil enterprise in North Korea. It’s an unlikely pairing, but the firm is betting it has the key ingredients to make such an unlikely gamble pay. As Mongolia […]
Read more »Kazakhstan’s Energy Woes
July 4th, 2013
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a report on Kazakhstan: The Bolashak oil plant on the Kashagan offshore oil field June 30. (LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images) Summary Kazakhstan is struggling with stagnant oil and natural gas production and flagging energy revenues, and in response it plans to turn to outside patrons to help exploit its energy reserves. […]
Read more »The Geopolitics Of China’s New Energy Route
July 2nd, 2013
Via Global Policy, an interesting commentary on China’s new energy route via Myanmar: China’s state-run China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) completed construction of a natural gas pipeline from Myanmar to China on 28 May 2013 and is close to finishing an oil pipeline. The pipeline will start delivering gas from Myanmar’s west coast in the […]
Read more »Beijing’s Plans For A Post-Karzai Kabul
June 22nd, 2013
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, some analysis of China’s role in Afghanistan post-2014: Hamid Karzai’s derailment of this week’s planned U.S. peace talks with the Taliban may have been a disappointment to Washington’s hopes of ending its longest war — but it disappointed Beijing, too. China welcomed the breakthrough in the Qatar process, and sees a […]
Read more »China and Central Asia: A Significant New Energy Nexus
June 17th, 2013
Via The European Financial Review, an in-depth look at China’s interest in Central Asian petroleum reserves: China now accounts for almost 20 percent of the world’s energy consumption and its demand is still growing at high speed. In order to keep up with the expanding industry China turns to Central Asia with ambitious gas line […]
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