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

Surprises aplenty in Iraqi oil selloff

The distinguishing feature of Iraq's auction of oil rights this weekend is the relative absence of American companies, in contrast to five weeks ago, when US firm ExxonMobil and Anglo-Dutch Shell signed an agreement to develop the West Qurna Phase...

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Posted on December 16, 2009 4:59 AM

The Rise of the Rimland?

Recent energy and other developments in Southwest Asia, particularly involving Turkey, Iran and Iraq, sketch the outline of an imminent reorganization of international relations in the region. This will have knock-on effects for Eurasia as a whole and the shape...

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Posted on November 13, 2009 2:46 PM

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

Reality wins over energy grand design

The re-eruption of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia over payments for gas deliveries illustrates that developments in Eurasian energy geo-economics do not take vacations, even over the New Year holidays. The Ukrainian-Russian dispute, for example, takes place in circumstances...

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Posted on January 8, 2009 12:03 AM

Ukraine clash threatens oil to Europe

Corruption and politics in Ukraine threaten to choke off, at least in the near term, the expansion of oil exports from Azerbaijan and eventually Kazakhstan to Europe. This is the significance of Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko's efforts in July...

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Posted on August 2, 2008 9:25 AM

Karachaganak Gas and the Future of Kazakhstan's Pipeline System

The Karachaganak energy field sends gas for processing to a Gazprom plant in Orenburg, Russia. The decision where to process oncoming increased Karachaganak volumes has significant implications for future development of Kazakhstan's national pipeline system.

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Posted on September 8, 2004 7:17 PM

Renewed conflicts in the Caspian

A good deal of attention has been devoted in recent days to the incident in the south Caspian on July 23, when Iranian military airplanes buzzed vessels that had been chartered by BP to begin exploring the Alov deposit, a...

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Posted on August 13, 2001 4:12 PM

Recent developments in the self-organizing Caspian pipeline network

A sensational report has arrived that Moscow may be altering its policy on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) export pipeline, so as to permit Russian companies to participate in its construction and operation. Russia's foreign minister Ivan Ivanov is said to have...

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Posted on May 29, 2001 10:00 PM

Do all roads lead to Ashgabat?

The recent summit of Turkic-language countries in Ankara provided Turkmenistan's President Saparmurad Niyazov with the opportunity to insist yet again that his country and his person are central, if not key, to the resolution of major problems in the region....

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Posted on May 8, 2001 5:44 PM

New Configurations around the Caspian (2/4)

Significant events that will determine the fate of a number of Caspian export pipelines have continued to occur in rapid succession, even as the government of Turkmenistan made a surprise announcement postponing a long-awaited summit among Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakstan, Turkmenistan...

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Posted on February 28, 2001 9:54 PM

Putin’s Caspian Diplomacy

The results of the recent visit by Russian president Vladimir Putin to Baku have received different interpretations in different media. This week’s column focuses on figuring out exactly what those results are, and what they mean, for the aspects of...

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Posted on January 31, 2001 9:21 PM

Putin's Caspian Diplomacy

The results of the recent visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin to Baku have received different interpretations in different media. This column focuses on figuring out exactly what those results are, and what they mean, for the aspects of Russian-Azerbaijani...

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Posted on January 21, 2001 12:59 AM

Developments in the evolving Caspian legal regime (1/2)

In view of some movement in the dispute over the division of the Caspian Sea, I interrupt my series on "How Shah-Deniz Is Changing the Equation" for a two-part analysis of these recent developments. I begin with a review of...

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Posted on August 22, 2000 12:13 AM

Russia, Turkey and Iran: An Eternal Triangle

The one formal organization is the Central Asian Economic Union which includes Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The leaders of these countries have concluded several agreements on expanding economic cooperation, but these will remain a dead letter until the Uzbek...

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Posted on July 5, 2000 4:42 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

Negotiations Proceed on the Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline

In mid-January, the first multilateral meeting of parties interested in the Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline (TCGP), which will carry natural gas from Turkmenistan to Turkey, was held in Ashgabat. It included the countries concerned, parties to the TCGP consortium that will...

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Posted on February 8, 2000 8:34 AM

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