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We have heard admonitions about peak oil and that we have already passed the geologic peak of world oil production capacity. On the other hand, the IEA warns that if we continue our present patterns of energy consumption, we will need the equivalent of four Saudi Arabia’s in new oil production...
On December 12 President Berdymukhamedov of Turkmenistan and President Hu Jintao of China inaugurated the first flows of gas through the Chinese pipeline from Turmenistan to China. This is an 1800 km pipeline to transport up to 40 bcm/y of gas from the Bagtyarlyk territory on the right bank of...
The US Congress is getting closer to making the same mistake it made in the US sanctions frenzy late last century. The Iran Refined Products Sanctions Act currently before the Congress has many of the same coalition busting characteristics of the Iran Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA) and the Helms...
US, European and Chinese proposals for Copenhagen: looking behind the numbers
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The recent spiral of provocations coming out of Iran and President Ahmadi-Nejad"s increasingly uncompelling bravado are both signs that internal tensions are eroding the President"s grip on power. Dissent continues inside Iran after the deeply flawed elections and government heavy handedness....
President Putin chose energy security as a major topic for the G8 Summit in St Petersburg in 2006 resulting in the G8 agreement on the St Petersburg Energy Security Principles. But earlier, in January of that same year, Russia had cut off gas to the Ukraine, raising anxiety in Europe about the...
Whatever the evolution of the economic downturn, it is essential to reinforce efforts now to reduce worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. The time-frames are not the same for these two crises - the economic and the climate ones. The effects of the global financial and economic turmoil are to...
By all indications they have been locked up while spin doctors are writing statements for Presidents and Prime Ministers. Not since Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez seized on the idea at the end of the last century have we heard serious contemplation of an oil price band. The last forty years...
Heads of State and Government will meet in Italy to discuss the state-of-the-world and its most pressing challenges. As every Summit, considerable attention will be devoted to energy issues and their nexus with the threat of climate change - or perhaps its eventuality. The world economy has...
Just a year ago the G-8 was held in a completely different environment: there was no crisis, Russia had not cut the gas off to its European partners, oil prices were tremendously high and going higher. Even so, today"s world is not that much worse than yesterday"s. It is simply different and...
