Oil
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: Russian government spelling out Baltic oil transport plans
April 20, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor Addressing the “Pipeline Transport 2007” conference in Moscow on April 17, Transneft president Semyon Vainshtok and Deputy Industry and Energy Minister Andrei Dementiev declared that expansion...
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: Backlash halts Hungary’s embrace of Blue Stream
March 27, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor For the moment at least, Hungary's Socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany is not abandoning the last line of defense against Gazprom's monopolization of pipeline routes to the European Union. That remaining...
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: Budapest torpedoes Nabucco project
March 15, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor Hungary’s Socialist-led government has apparently decided to support Gazprom’s Blue Stream project, through which Russia seeks to capture an ever-growing share of the European Union’s gas...
Hungary opts for Gazprom over EU
March 13, 2007The Paris-based "International Herald Tribune" wrote on March 13 that "as the EU struggles to achieve a common energy and security policy, the Socialist-led government of Hungary has broken with the bloc by joining forces with Gazprom to...
Analysis: Lukoil at the crossroads
March 12, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor The destruction of Yukos by the Russian state left Lukoil as Russia’s largest oil company not controlled by the Kremlin, though of necessity loyal to it and often in its graces. Lukoil’s nominal...
Analysis: First Russian-operated pipeline on European Union territory rears its head
March 02, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, The Eurasia Daily Monitor Given the policy vacuum in Brussels and Washington, the EU member countries Greece and Bulgaria are far advanced in negotiations with Russia on constructing a Russian state-operated oil transit pipeline...
