Sunday 5th February, 2012

• Southern gas corridor grows more complex

  Asia Times

  Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - Just as smaller gas projects in the European Union were welcoming a decision by Azerbaijan and Turkey to build a Trans-Anatolian Gas Pipeline (TAGP), statements now ...

• Playing chess in Eurasia

  Asia Times

  Playing chess in Eurasia By Pepe Escobar Bets are off on which is the great story of 2011. Is it the Arab Spring(s)? Is it the Arab counter-revolution, unleashed by the House of Saud? Is it ...

• Azerbaijan - the cruciblefor Eurasia's energy brew

  Asia Times

  By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - The geo-economics of Central Eurasian energy have continued along analytical lines previously outlined in this space. ...

• Turkmenistan to boostgas exports to China

  Asia Times

  By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - Turkmenistan has agreed to increase future natural gas exports to China from the already planned 40 billion cubic meters per year (bcm/y) to 65 bcm/y, or more ...

• Turkmenistan stands by Caspian pipeline

  Asia Times

  By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - Turkmenistan's foreign ministry issued a definitive rebuke last week to political forces trying to use diplomatic and legal stratagems to block conclusion ...

• Putin enters the dragon's den

  Asia Times

  By M K Bhadrakumar Within a fortnight of his announcement to stand in the Russian presidential election in early 2012, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will be heading for Beijing. The Kremlin ...

• BP slips in Shah Deniz bid

  Asia Times

  By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - The door closed at the beginning of this month on the submission of final project proposals by pipeline consortia seeking to transport natural gas from Phase Two ...

• Turkey seeks gas price cut

  Asia Times

  By Vladimir Socor Turkey has joined the growing ranks of claimants to revision of their contracts with Russian gas supplier Gazprom. On September 29, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz, ...

• China expands energy ties in Central Asia

  Asia Times

  By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - China has been implementing deeper and deeper energy cooperation with Central Asia, for over a decade, beginning with Beijing's acquisition of energy ...

• Russia's Kudrin still in play

  Asia Times

  By RFE/RL MOSCOW - Russian Finance Minister Aleksei Kudrin has resigned from his post just hours after a heated public exchange with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who ordered him to do ...

• Russian heads for slowdown

  Asia Times

  investment. The privatization plan announced with great fanfare in 2010 was expanded this year, but the full plan has still not been authorized and may undergo further modification before ...

• EU takes plunge into Caspian pipeline talks

  Asia Times

  By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - The European Commission (EC) last week took the unprecedented step of requesting and receiving authority from the European Council to assist in negotiations ...

• Obama prepares to punish Pakistan

  Asia Times

  By M K Bhadrakumar The Barack Obama administration is making an extraordinary bid with the United States Congress to get the seven-year old embargo on military aid to Uzbekistan lifted ...

• Ukraine in gas talks deadlock

  Asia Times

  By Pavel Korduban As winter approaches, the Ukraine-Russia gas price talks have been deadlocked, increasing the likelihood of a repetition of the "gas wars" of 2006 and 2009. ...

• Total find bulks up Baku's local standing

  Asia Times

  By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - The discovery by French energy major Total of yet another major natural gas source in the Caspian Sea offshore from Azerbaijan, announced at the weekend, further ...

• Turkey's economy may falter

  Asia Times

  By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - The Turkish economy, which has been forecast to expand by almost 9% this year, may in fact face a slowing growth rate if the latest central bank releases are any ...

• Putin's European goalno longer a pipe dream

  Asia Times

  By M K Bhadrakumar For Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, September 6 will remain as one of the memorable days of his checkered public life. The Nord Stream pipeline carrying Russian ...

• Ukraine moves to trim gas lines

  Asia Times

  By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - In a move that could affect the future of Eurasian geo-economics and alter its energy politics, Ukraine is to dismantle its state-owned corporation Naftogaz and ...

• Kremlin faces big hit in Libya

  Asia Times

  By Tom Balmforth MOSCOW - Russia's belated recognition of Libya's provisional leadership on September 1 carried a hint of desperation. For months, Moscow had refused to ...

• South Korea deepens role in Central Asia

  Asia Times

  By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - South Korea President Lee Myung-bak returned home last week from a tour of Mongolia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan that helped to raise his country's profile ...

• Exxon wins BP's lost Russian Arctic fields

  Asia Times

  By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - ExxonMobil, the United States oil major and the world's biggest company, and Russia's Rosneft have signed an agreement to develop the three offshore ...

• Kazakh lawyer pays heavyprice for strike talk

  Asia Times

  By Andrei Grishin The Kazakh authorities, by meting out harsh punishments to union activists involved in recent oil-industry strikes, are merely resorting to tried-and-tested methods of ...

• Nabucco against the minnows

  Asia Times

  By Vladimir Socor Nabucco, the strategic project for transportation of Caspian gas to Europe, seems threatened by the non-strategic pipeline projects, ITGI (Interconnector ...

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