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EU-U.S. Energy Coordination
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Overshadowed by the frantic negotiations to save the Euro-zone, but in many ways no less important, high-level EU and U.S. representatives met in Washington DC at the end of last month to midwife still nascent official cooperation on energy policy be...
Nabucco is Dead
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Nabucco is dead. BP killed it. The epic 5-country natural gas pipeline that was to bring Caspian resources to Central Europe to lessen EU dependence on Russian supplies was scuppered in late September by the very same supermajor that was supposed to...
Building Nabucco Without Nabucco
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The struggle to break European dependence on Russian natural gas is at a deal-defining impasse. The main alternative producer of gas in Europe’s neighborhood, Azerbaijan, cannot come to an agreement with Turkey, the primary transit country along th...
Barroso in the Caspian
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European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso was in Turkmenistan last week negotiating ways the Caspian country’s vast natural gas reserves might ameliorate European dependence on Russian resources through the so-called Southern Energy Cor...
China and Eurasian Energy
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Natural gas is in the midst of a transformative moment. The advent of shale gas, the growth of seaborne liquefied natural gas (LNG), and a new “green” image for the old hydrocarbon brought more uses, attention and yes, even controversy, t...
Ukraine is Not Yet Lost
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Since this winter’s presidential election, in which pro-Russian Victor Yanukovich emerged the victor, Ukraine has experienced a massive turnaround. Its politics, security policy, cultural and language policies and energy policy all look toward...
Ukraine: Time for Energy Reform
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Co-authored with Tamerlan Vahabov: The 2010 Ukrainian elections have been consigned to history books. The election season and the winter passed without a major Ukrainian natural gas crisis, and a major gas cutoff, such as occurred in 2009, was avoide...
The U.S. and Eurasian Energy
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KABUL, Afghanistan What little-known international issue is key to our relationship with Afghanistan, Iraq, China, Russia, Turkey, the countries of Central Asia and our European allies? Eurasia’s energy geopolitics cut across more U.S. foreign...
Energy and Ukraine’s Election
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This winter may not see a natural-gas crisis in Ukraine, but then again, the country’s presidential election isn’t over. The outcome of the February 7 second round runoff may well determine whether the gas crises continue, and by extension, s...
Nabucco Supplies to Iran, Russia?
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APA’s interview with Alexandros Petersen, senior fellow of Eurasia Center at Atlantic Council in Washington DC - Europe still depends on Russia in terms of energy, NABUCCO is still not there, while Turkey and Iran are planning to cooperate in the e...
Azerbaijan’s Gas Going East?
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Azerbaijan’s ongoing dispute with Turkey about transit terms and revenues for natural gas heading to Europe across Anatolia, as well as uncertainties about the Nabucco pipeline project, have compelled highest-level officials at Azerbaijan’s State...
Russia’s Energy Strategy
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The following are my Nov. 16, 2009 remarks at the 4th Energy Forum in Budapest. Panel 6: Russian Energy Strategy and the New Economic Realities The financial crisis hit Russia much more than expected. How did the crisis affect major Russian energy...
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pipeline
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Rügen is best known as a popular German tourist destination. But now the Baltic Sea island has taken on a new role as staging point for an energy project that is as ambitious as it is controversial: the Nord Stream gas pipeline from Russia to German...
The Caspian Comes to Europe
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If EU policymakers and companies are not going to go to Caspian energy producers with serious offers for their hydrocarbons, Caspian producers will just have to come to the EU. That seems to be the message being sent by Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan as...
