Oil
Kurds, Hunt Oil sign contract in Iraq
October 03, 2007Kurdistan and the central Iraqi government are at odds over an oil deal made by Kurdish leaders with Hunt Oil of Dallas, The New York Times reported Friday. “We believe these contracts have needlessly elevated tensions" between the Kurdistan...
Analysis: Estonia will not allow the Nord Stream pipeline on its seabed
September 27, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor Estonia's government has turned down the Russo-German company Nord Stream's request to survey the seabed off the Estonian coast. The survey was to precede the construction of the Russian gas pipeline on the...
Analysis: Gas discussions in Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan after the Budapest Nabucco conference
September 25, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor European officials are hastening to Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan in the wake of the Budapest conference that relaunched the momentum of the Nabucco gas pipeline project (see EDM, September 19, 20). Turkmenistan...
Analysis: Strategic issues still facing the Nabucco project
September 20, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor The Nabucco gas pipeline project is back on track (see EDM, September 19), preparing for an actual start. However, this project has a history of being derailed before even starting. In order to avoid any...
Romney wants more military, less govt.
September 20, 2007GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney told Florida voters his plan for the White House calls for bigger military, smaller government and less foreign oil. The former Massachusetts governor, campaigning Tuesday near Jacksonville, Fla., said he plans...
Analysis: Bulgaria seduced by south stream gas project?
September 14, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor Bulgarian authorities seem to regard Russia’s South Stream project for gas transport to Europe as a great opportunity for the designated transit country, Bulgaria. The South Stream pipeline would run...
Analysis: Bulgaria’s ambitions for Caspian oil transit
September 13, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor On September 10 Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivailo Kalfin outlined the country’s goals to join transport corridors for Caspian oil and gas. Kalfin spoke in the wake of an official visit to...
South Korea ships fuel oil to North Korea
July 13, 2007The first shipload of heavy fuel oil, part of an aid deal for North Korea's denuclearization, left South Korea's Ulsan port Thursday. The Yonhap news agency reported the 6,200-ton tanker-load was bound for North Korea's Sonbong port. It is part of...
Analysis: Russian oil pipeline shutoff to Lithuania: wider ramifications
June 06, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor Moscow’s closure of the oil pipeline to Lithuania in July 2006 “looked, sounded, and felt” (see EDM, August 3, 18, 2006) like political and economic retaliation against the privatization...
Analysis: Questions multiply on the Baltic seabed pipeline project’s viability
April 23, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor Gazprom-led Nord Stream, the Russo-German project for a gas pipeline on the Baltic seabed, is running behind schedule on construction of the overland section in Russia and faces cost projection overruns on...
