Energy
Egypt to pursue civilian nuclear plants
October 30, 2007Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Monday his country would build several civilian nuclear plants to address future energy needs. “We believe that energy security is a major part of building the future for this country and an integral part...
Analisys: Vilnius energy summit institutionalizing a process
October 15, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor Presidents and other top officials from the three Baltic states, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Georgia, and Azerbaijan, joined by EU and U.S. officials, attended the Energy Security Conference on October 10-11 in Vilnius. It was the...
Analysis: Playing catch-up with Russia on Caspian energy transit
June 12, 2007Author: Vladimir Socror, Eurasia Daily Monitor U.S. government officials are fanning out to the Caspian region after the signing of Russia’s monopolistic agreements on energy transit with three Central Asian countries and Austria in May (see EDM...
Analysis: Caspian Energy Projects: “Time to advance from talking to acting”
June 05, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor Russia’s monopolistic agreements on energy transit, signed in rapid succession with three Central Asian countries and Austria (see EDM, May 14, 16, 17, 29, 31) sent yet another wake-up call in Washington...
Analysis: Krakow pro-western energy summit outmaneuvered by Putin in Central Asia
May 14, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor Originally suggested more than a year ago (http://www.jamestown.org/events_details.php?event_id=12), a summit of energy producer, transit, and consumer countries was held, albeit in a truncated format, on...
Analysis: Moscow pressuring Kazakhstan to frustrate westbound energy transport projects
April 05, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor Kazakhstan is apparently facing Russian pressure to stay out of Western-supported energy projects and maximize the transit of Kazakh oil and gas via Russia. In recent days, President Nursultan Nazarbayev...
Ukrainian president urges consideration for energy-transit countries
February 12, 2007Viktor Yushchenko said at the Munich Conference on Security Policy on February 10 that Europe needs to take into account the interests of the countries that serve as transit routes for Europe-bound energy supplies, Interfax-Ukraine reported. "[These...
Energy, healthcare top Bush agenda
January 23, 2007WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush will tell U.S. citizens Tuesday practical ways can be found to advance the American dream. An overview of the 2007 State of the Union address issued by the White House shows Bush will address...
- December 18, 2006
The Kremlin’s confiscatory assault on Royal Dutch Shell and threats to other Western energy majors in Russia on Black Tuesday, December 12 (see EDM, December 13) is the latest in a series of moves disproving Western wishful thinking about Russia...
Lack of Transparency Undermines Eurasian Energy Security
December 08, 2006(Washington, D.C.--December 6, 2006) The author of an investigative report on natural gas trading by Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Russia told an RFE/RL audience last week that Europe lacks energy security as long as there is a lack of transparency in...