Gas
Analysis: Resistance growing to the Baltic seabed pipeline project
April 23, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor The Russo-German project for a gas pipeline on the Baltic seabed is meeting with growing skepticism and resistance in the region. The Gazprom-led consortium, Nord Stream, has now unwittingly added to those...
Analysis: Russia poised to lead an evolving cartel of gas-exporting countries
April 11, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor Convening in Doha, Qatar on April 9, the Gas-Exporting Countries’ Forum (GECF) has taken a first step toward creating an exporters’ cartel at the intergovernmental level. However, the Western...
Analysis: Toward a Russia-led cartel for gas?
March 30, 2007Autor: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor Proposals for the Gas-Exporting Countries’ Forum to consider the possibility of forming a cartel have in recent weeks been aired by the presidents of Russia, Iran, and Algeria, as well as the Emir of...
Analysis: Gas suppliers’ cartel: not an “OPEC,” but cartel all the same
March 30, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor With common trepidation substituting for a common policy, the West is awaiting the Gas-Exporting Countries’ Forum (GECF) meeting on April 9 in Doha, Qatar. It will be the group’s sixth meeting...
Analysis: Iran-Armenia gas pipeline: far more than meets the eye
March 22, 2007Author: Vladimir Scocor, Eurasia Daily Monitor On March 19 Presidents Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and Robert Kocharian of Armenia inaugurated the operations of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline (Armenpress, IRNA, March 19, 20). Although the project&rsquo...
Analysis: Questionable rationales for the Bohorodchany-Uzhhorod gas pipeline project
February 28, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, The Eurasia Daily Monitor, The Ukrainian government is stepping up its efforts to form a consortium with Gazprom to construct a gas transit pipeline in Ukraine from Bohorodchany to Uzhhorod. The 230-kilometer line, with a projected...
Analysis: Shah-Deniz gas buttressing Georgia, Azerbaijan economically and politically
January 18, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor At 10 pm local time on January 14, commercial production and the delivery flow of gas started at the first well of Azerbaijan’s giant offshore field Shah-Deniz, a BP-led project. In the afternoon of the following day, the...
Gazprom says supplies to Europe will not be disrupted
December 27, 2006A Gazprom official said the company will continue to deliver Europe-bound natural gas via Belarus even if no contract is signed with Minsk, RIA Novosti reported the same day. "All volumes of gas on our export contracts will be delivered to the Belarusian...
