Entries from Robert M. Cutler on Energy and Eurasia tagged with 'Kashagan'

Nazarbaev faults Europe on Nabucco

President Nursultan Nazarbaev of Kazakhstan publicly endorsed the Nabucco natural gas pipeline earlier this month, then criticized Europe for putting too much talk into the project and not enough action....

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Posted on July 28, 2010 10:43 AM

Казахи и контроль над Карачаганаком

Казахстан, стремящийся усилить свое влияние над масштабом и темпом развития своих проектов по природным ресурсам, похоже, имеет в поле зрения прибрежное газовое месторождение Карачаганак после проведения коренной реорганизации на месторождении Кашаган....

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Posted on March 5, 2010 5:31 AM

Kazakhs tighten grip on Karachaganak

Kazakhstan, which is seeking to strengthen its influence over the scale and pace of development of its natural resource projects, appears to have the onshore Karachaganak natural gas venture in its sights after driving through a shake-up at the offshore...

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Posted on March 5, 2010 12:19 AM

Ukrainian Elections Complicate Southern Energy Corridor

Viktor Yanukovych came first in the presidential elections in Ukraine, but Yuliya Tymoshenko has instructed lawyers to bring to the courts evidence of voting irregularities to put Yanukovych’s margin of victory under question. Even if the latter is able to...

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Posted on February 17, 2010 11:40 AM

Ukraine poll may deliver oil to Europe

Ukraine's run-off election between Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and rival Viktor Yanukovych, to be held on Sunday, may decide the future of a pipeline that could be used to deliver Caspian Sea oil to Europe, bypassing both Russia and Turkey....

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Posted on February 5, 2010 8:42 PM

Сложные эволюции в раскладе сил

В том, что касается разработки и использования энергоресурсов бассейна Каспийского моря, Китай постепенно превращается в игрока, с которым приходится считаться. Вкупе с давно сложившимся пересечением региональных интересов России, Европы и США это должно послужить напоминанием о динамично меняющейся ситуации в...

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Posted on December 28, 2009 5:23 AM

Caspian Diplomacy Should Intensify

For over 15 years the U.S. has worked to promote cooperation over energy issues among the newly independent states in the Caspian Sea region. A proclaimed goal of U.S. energy policy in the region since the early 1990s has been...

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Posted on December 1, 2009 8:52 AM

Kaspickú diplomaciu je nutné zintenzívniť

UE; viac ako 15 rokov sa Spojené štáty usilujú zintenzívniť kooperáciu medzi nezávislými krajinami kaspického regiónu v oblasti energetiky. Od začiatku 90. rokov je cieľom americkej energetickej politiky zabezpečiť, aby tieto krajiny nezáviseli len od jednej vývoznej trasy, ktorá by...

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Posted on December 1, 2009 8:30 AM

The Importance of the Caspian and Central Asia as a Source of and Transit Route for Energy

Prepared remarks to the Wilton Park Conference The South Caucasus and Wider Black Sea Neighbourhood: Regional Developments and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Wiston House, West Sussex (U.K.), 23–26 November 2009. China's emergence as an important player in the development and use of...

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Posted on November 25, 2009 7:15 PM

Қазақстан туралы шет елдерден келіп түскен күнделікті жаңалықтар

«Asia Times Online» басылымының авторы Роберт М.Катлер (Robert M Cutler) қазанның 10-ы күні «Kazakhstan points route out of crisis» атты мақала жариялап, соңғы уақытта біздің еліміздің халықаралық деңгейде үлкен саяси-экономикалық маңызы бар шешімдерге қол жеткізіп, дағдарыстан шығар жолды көрсеткені туралы...

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Posted on October 13, 2009 3:41 PM

Казахстан указывает на путь выхода из кризиса

Визит президента Франции Николя Саркози в Казахстан для подписания сделки по трубопроводу ознаменовал собой неделю, на которой произошло два других важных события (в том числе новый подход к реструктурированию банка), "отслеживающие", как страна, приведенная в боевую готовность, стремится преодолеть экономический...

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Posted on October 13, 2009 3:25 PM

Kazakhstan points route out of crisis

French President Nicolas Sarkozy's visit to Kazakhstan for the signing of an energy pipeline deal marked a week that included two other significant events, including a novel approach to bank restructuring, that trace how the embattled country is seeking to...

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Posted on October 10, 2009 10:14 AM

Серьёзные ставки в переговорах о газопроводах

Фридрих Энгельс писал, что исторические события зачастую представляют собой «нежелательный результат» различных импульсов в «параллелограмме сил»....

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Posted on October 1, 2009 12:56 PM

Nabucco ink starts to flow

The signing this week of a transit agreement to govern the Nabucco natural gas pipeline marks an important staging post in bringing to reality the long-touted energy route, which is projected to run 3,300 kilometers from the Caspian Sea region...

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Posted on July 16, 2009 12:59 AM

Kazakhstan Looks at the Trans-Caspian for Tengiz Gas to Europe

As Russia and China seek to augment their influence over the development of Kazakhstan’s energy production, Astana looks for other routes to overcome the restraints. The reinvigoration since 2007 of prospects for a Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline (TCGP) with Turkmenistan's participation...

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Posted on January 29, 2009 9:06 AM

Euro-Caspian energy plans inch forward

Azerbaijan's state oil company SOCAR and Kazakhstan's state monopoly KazMunaiGaz this month signed an agreement setting out the main principles for a transport system to convey Kazakhstani oil across the Caspian Sea for entry into the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline and...

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Posted on November 27, 2008 11:09 AM

Kazakhstan reins in oil majors

The Kazakh government, concerned about the failure of ExxonMobil and other oil giants to get production flowing from the vast Kashagan oil reserves in the Caspian, has beefed up its role in the mostly foreign-run consortium running the project. The group, led by Italy's Eni, also now risks losing millions of dollars in sunk costs if a new deadline is not met

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Posted on November 7, 2008 11:53 PM

Kazakhstan does its own bailing

Kazakhstan, whose economy has endured a switchback progress since independence from the Kremlin in 1991, is discovering the benefits of salting away wealth in the good times as it seeks to survive the global downturn without recourse to foreign aid....

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Posted on October 30, 2008 9:44 AM

Türkiye’nin İşi Zor

Türkiye’nin ekonomik ve siyasi gerçekleri tek başına, piyasalardaki yaz canlanmasının canına okurdu. Rusya’nın Türkiye’nin arka kapısı Gürcistan’ı işgali de bunu kesinleştirdi....

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Posted on August 28, 2008 11:00 AM

Turkey has a rough road ahead

The realities of Turkey's economy and politics would alone have killed off the summer revival in the country's stock markets. Russia's invasion of Georgia, on Turkey's back doorstep, made sure....

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Posted on August 28, 2008 8:53 AM

Gas pipeline gigantism

Ground was broken in Kazakhstan last week for construction of that country's segment of a natural gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to China, set to be the longest and most expensive such pipeline in the world - its length is usually...

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Posted on July 17, 2008 8:51 AM

Kashagan Leads Kazakhstan To Increase Trans-Caspian Oil Exports

Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan have culminated years-long negotiations with agreements that increase the amounts of Kazakhstani oil to be shipped across the Caspian Sea, supplementing Azerbaijani crude in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline. Still more significant, redevelopment and expansion of ports on...

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Posted on July 9, 2008 9:23 AM

Kazakhstan announces new energy directions

Kazakhstan's Prime Minister Karim Masimov has announced major energy-related decisions in the wake of President Nursultan Nazarbaev's address to the nation last week. First, and most strikingly, he has ordered the suspension all negotiations with foreign investors on exploration, development...

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Posted on February 13, 2008 9:31 AM

Kazakhstan Threatens Oil Export Duty Following Kashagan Settlement

Two weeks after successful renegotiation of Kazakhstan's participation in the Kashagan offshore project, the country's energy minister stated on January 29 that Kazakhstan may impose a duty on nearly half of all exports of crude and oil products beginning in...

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Posted on February 6, 2008 8:50 AM

Energy Security for Turkey Is Energy Security for Others

A geopolitical and geo-economic inventory of Turkey's assets in the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century reveals such strengths, beyond its military capa-bilities and other state institutions, as industry, population, and, above all, geographic lo-cation. These are...

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Posted on February 12, 2006 10:27 AM

Russia Begins Oil Swaps with Iran

Iran has been seeking since the mid-1990s to undertake oil swaps with Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan as a way to increase its own exports. Such swaps involve Iran’s importing oil in the north on its Caspian Sea coast for domestic refining...

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Posted on March 12, 2003 11:35 PM

Kazakhstan’s New Foreign Investment Law

Late last year, the flagship venture TengizChevrOil took the unusual step of holding its board meeting in Almaty and voting to suspend the next stage (planned at $3 billion) in the project’s development. A number of explanations filtered out over...

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Posted on February 26, 2003 5:46 PM

The Caspian Pipeline Consortium Beats the Skeptics

Oil from the Tengiz deposit in western Kazakhstan is being pumped westward through a pipeline through southern Russia. The pipeline, built by the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), has cost $2.6 million to construct: twice the originally estimated cost. It will...

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Posted on September 12, 2001 6:20 PM

Geo-economics and Energy Development in Central Asia

This article calls attention to overlooked aspects of the Central Asian energy balance, with special attention paid to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and the contrasts between them and the significance of those contrasts.

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Posted on April 25, 2001 1:38 AM

New Configurations around the Caspian Sea (4/4)

The selection several weeks ago of Italy's ENI as operator of the Offshore Kazakhstan International Operating Company (OKIOC), which is exploring the vast Kashagan deposit offshore from Kazakhstan, came as a surprise to most observers. Eni was a dark horse...

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Posted on March 28, 2001 10:36 PM

New Configurations around the Caspian Sea (3/4)

The current, contradictory phase of events around the Caspian is captured by the difficult realism of Viktor Kalyuzhnyi, Russia's deputy foreign minister, who also serves as President Vladimir Putin's special envoy on Caspian affairs. As developments continue to accelerate, Russia...

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Posted on March 21, 2001 10:09 PM

How Shah-Deniz Is Changing the Equation (8/9)

In my most recent installment in this series, I indicated that recent developments pointed towards the need to review Turkmenistan's options for export of its natural gas. That is the subject of this article....

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Posted on December 6, 2000 2:32 AM

Developments in the evolving Caspian legal regime (2/2)

I conclude the short series, on efforts to settle the international legal status of the Caspian Sea. Last week I addressed the inheritance from the Soviet period and surveyed the most salient events during the 1990s up to the end...

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Posted on August 29, 2000 4:59 PM

How Shah-Deniz Is Changing the Equation (2/9)

Fall-out continues from the Shah-Deniz gas find offshore from Azerbaijan. Several weeks ago, part one of this series examined developments around the Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline (TCGP) from Turkmenistan, and Iran's problems with Turkmenistani gas imports. The evident withdrawal of PSG...

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Posted on July 11, 2000 4:51 PM

Caspian energy pipelines: Towards a self-organizing network?

One of the properties of increasingly networked relationships is that they seem to begin to take on a life of their own. The word "self-organization" is used for describing this. In the evolution of networks, events can occur that seem...

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Posted on June 6, 2000 3:26 PM

Solving the Problems of Caspian Industrial Infrastructure (2/2)

Three weeks ago I began describing part of the industrial infrastructure problem in the Caspian region. Limitations of physical geography require relative self-sufficiency in the development of basic infrastructure and installation of production facilities. The amount of investment required to...

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Posted on May 23, 2000 2:20 PM

Just When You Thought Baku-Ceyhan Was Dead and Buried (7/7)

It was announced recently that Georgia will sign this week a host government agreement with private investors in the oil pipeline pipeline from the Azeri capital Baku, through the Georgian capital Tbilisi to the Turkish Black Sea port of Ceyhan....

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Posted on May 2, 2000 2:03 PM

Solving the Problems of Caspian Industrial Infrastructure (1/2)

This week I begin a new, short series on an issue that few people talk about and fewer people do anything about. This is the industrial infrastructure problem. It is already clear that problems of energy development in the Caspian...

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Posted on April 25, 2000 7:12 PM

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