A New North-South Iranian Pipeline?
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 [...]
Azerbaijan’s Contract(s) of the Century
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 [...]
An OPEC for Natural Gas: Born in South America?
As noted in Xinhua earlier this month, Bolivia, Argentina and Venezuela signed an accord to create the Organization of Gas Producing and Exporting Countries of South America (Opegasur), which is [...]
A Future SCO Energy Club and China’s Increasingly Close Ties with Kazakhstan
As noted in a recent Central Asia News article, China and Kazakhstan signed several bilateral agreements during the visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao, which some observers and analysts say will [...]
Iran’s Looming Energy “Catastrophe”?
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 [...]
Chavez’s Into Africa Tour…
Several interesting tidbits from this Energy Daily analysis, namely, Chavez’s continued engagement with African oil-rich nations and PDVSA’s plan to create its own equipment/services [...]

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