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Our respected colleague Mikhail Korchemkin of East European Gas Analysis brought to our attention an intriguing comment contained within the The April issue of Blue Fuel newsletter of Gazprom-Export Global Newsletter. The article, Southern Corridor Pipeline of Discord and Repositioning of Italy, contains...
Last September, Turkmenistan made an upbeat announcement that it was working on the creation of a consortium for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline and would even attract new membership in the group as well as chose a leader. Since then, the momentum...
In a new minority staff report for the US Senate's committee on foreign relations, the writers noted that “Russia’s Gazprom has been forced to change its domestic strategy, including abandoning its flagship Shtokman project in the Arctic, and it has had to contend with plummeting market value...
Last week was marked by a new stage of the EU activeness within realization of its energetic strategy in the Caspian region. The European Commissioner for Energy, Gunther Oettinger, visited Azerbaijan again. He met President Ilham Aliyev, the Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov, and the Energy Minister...
Since the flare-up of the long-standing Caspian Sea border dispute between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, neither side has budged to resolve the matter in order to move forward on joint projects, notably the Trans-Caspian Pipeline. In June, Turkmenistan's Foreign Ministry protested what it deemed "illegal...
Azerbaijan will not invest in the Trans-Caspian pipeline, its energy minister has said, nor does it see the possibility of the project being built any time soon. Speaking to journalists yesterday, Azeri Minister for Energy Natig Aliyev said that should the pipeline be built, it is not Azerbaijan who...
After years of political bickering and commercial uncertainty, Europe’s Southern Gas Corridor project is finally gaining traction. If all goes well, Caspian gas can start flowing to Europe no later than 2018, easing the overdependence on Russian energy imports. Final decisions on Azerbaijan's...
Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan are at it again, feuding over a lucrative patch of the Caspian Sea. Russia would likely be the chief beneficiary of Caspian discord, if it continues. Baku and Ashgabat have wrestled since the Soviet collapse in 1991 over ownership of three Caspian oilfields. Two of the three...
The southern Caspian has got even more complex over the past week, as tensions surface between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan over disputed gas reserves. Although unlikely to lead to anything serious, the confrontation is likely to further reduce the odds for a Trans-Caspian Pipeline and will make potential...
At this week’s Caspian Offshore Summit in Astana, there were mixed signals on the prospects for a Trans-Caspian Pipeline, with Turkmenistan distancing itself from the project and an EU official insisting that Brussels was simply acting as a mediator. It seems that all sides are once again refusing...
