Pipe(dreams) and Plans: Condensed into a Pipette
January 9th, 2008
As always, a very interesting post by Steve LeVine focused primarily on the withdrawal of Thomas Pickering, the senior U.S. statesman who was to lead the high-level U.S. pipeline campaign on the Caspian. Mr. LeVine offers an intriguing alternative but, having detailed many posts on various pipeline initiatives in this blog, I thought that the […]
Read more »Increasing Ties Between China and Turkmenistan
January 7th, 2008
Via Energy Daily, an insightful analysis of the growing ties between China and Turkmenistan. As we have recently discussed on this blog in earlier posts, China National Petroleum Corp. announced it will invest $2.16 billion to underwrite construction of a planned Central Asia-China natural gas pipeline. CNPC subsidiaries PetroChina and China National Oil and Gas […]
Read more »Russia’s Energy Secret and The Chinese Threat
December 30th, 2007
A very interesting article in Newsweek, which details that – despite its aggressive energy-related dealings – Russia can barely meet its own demand. While reading this report, I can’t help but think of the Cold War years in which Russia (and other states for that matter) aggressively portrayed & projected its strength internationally, while the […]
Read more »Gas’ing Up: China Pays For a Central Asian Pipeline
December 30th, 2007
I noticed via The International Herald Tribune, that China’s biggest oil company – China National Petroleum Corp. – has agreed to spend US$2.2 billion to help build a natural gas pipeline from Turkmenistan that will eventually supply energy for booming cities such as Shanghai. Just yet another matching of mutual interests – China’s desire to […]
Read more »Turk(ish)menistan…
December 9th, 2007
As reported by New Eurasia, Turkish President Abdullah Gül – during a three-day official visit to Turkmenistan – proposed the reinstatement of the project of a gas pipeline running from Turkmenistan to Turkey via Iran, with annual capacity of 16 billion cubic metres of gas. However, as the article notes, Gül’s visit was about more […]
Read more »Gazprom’s New Field and Enduring Supply Problems
December 9th, 2007
Via Stratfor (subscription required), an very insightful analysis of Gazprom’s new Yuzhno-Russkoye oil and natural gas field, due to come on line Dec. 18. However, as the report points out, even this 805 billion cubic meter field will not stem the overall decline in Gazprom’s natural gas production, highlighting the seriousness of the supply crunch […]
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