Gas to Europe: Between Turkey, Russia and the Deep Black Sea
While Turkey and Russia plow along with natural gas pipelines north and south of the Black Sea, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Romania have decided that the shortest and fastest distance between two points is...
View ArticleTurkmenistan Edges Toward Nabucco, Caspian Resolution with Azerbaijan
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has made his most forthright statement yet regarding the prospects for his country's participation in the Western-backed Nabucco pipeline, designed to skirt...
View ArticleRussia Talks TAPI with Turkmenistan; Postpones Prikaspiisky
During his visit to Ashgabat October 21-22, Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev discussed the possibility of Gazprom, Russia's state-owned gas monopoly, becoming involved in the...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament Postpones Vote on Turkmenistan Agreement
The European Parliament has postponed voting on an agreement with Turkmenistan until March 2011, according to the the Legislative Observatory on the European Parliament's web site. The agreement was...
View ArticleTurkmen Foreign Ministry Blasts Russia for Spinning Energy Talks
A week after President Dmitry Medvedev's visited Ashgabat and Russian media gave a positive spin to his talks about the Turkmen-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline, the Turkmen Foreign Ministry...
View ArticleTurkmenistan Promises 40 bcm of Gas for Nabucco Pipeline
Turkmenistan is willing to supply up to 40 billion cubic meters (bcm) to the Nabucco pipeline, First Deputy Prime Minister Baimurad Khodzhamukhamedov said today in Ashgabat, according to a report from...
View ArticleNabucco Pipeline: Finita la Comedia?
Though the Nabucco pipeline project did have a promising libretto, some energy analysts believe it may never see its name in lights. On the lookout for lower-priced production values, some pipeline...
View ArticleTurkmenistan: EU Maintains Hope for Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline – Report
A long-stalled project to deliver Turkmen gas to Europe is again in the spotlight after a European Union official said the idea remains on the table. Denis Daniilidis, the head of the EU mission in...
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