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September 2, 2010

Energy/All

Turkmen oil eases Nabucco worry

The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline this month received its first oil from Turkmenistan. It was a modest amount, but most of it will eventually reach the European Union. That should buck up supporters of the Nabucco gas pipeline to Europe who feared Turkmen leaders in Ashgabat had forgotten them and their project.

- Bruce Pannier (Aug 24, '10)

Greening of China an affair of state

China's drive towards industrialization has left much of the country an environmental disaster, yet it leads the world in pursuing green technology. Both facts are helping to build tensions with trading partners - not least in the United States.

- Benjamin A Shobert (Aug 13, '10)

The gulf at the gas station

When oil prices in the United States soared in 2008, Americans behaved differently - cutting down on driving, buying more efficient cars. If the real costs of extracting, defending and cleaning up the mess of the fuel were included in the price, what then would change? Would we correct for the Gulf of Mexico catastrophe by living according to a different measure?

- Mark Engler (Aug 13, '10)

Subsidy blow for fuel profiteers

The Indian government's decision to end subsidies on petrol and cooking gas required a stern stance by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, but it will reduce the burden on state-run petroleum companies and cut back on the diversion of fuels for use by profiteers.

- Ranjit Devraj (Aug 10, '10)

Russia to support metals sector

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has pledged government support to Russian metal companies, while conceding that they have lower productivity and consume up to 20% more energy than their foreign counterparts. Nor has his earlier finger-wagging at steelmaker Mechel put a halt to tax dodging.

- Sergei Blagov (Aug 04, '10)

Japanese-Kazakh ties go nuclear

Japan, the world's third-biggest producer of nuclear energy, is looking to cut its transport costs for Kazakhstan's uranium by moving it through Russia's far east rather than west to Canada. With related agreements and rising global demand for uranium, Tokyo and Astana both stand to gain from their growing nuclear energy cooperation.

- Roman Muzalevsky (Aug 03, '10)

Speaking Freely

China goes West with programs

Is China's 'Go West' strategy of injecting cash and invigorating the economies of neglected regions of the country a case of too little too late? The plethora of development schemes Beijing has unveiled for the western hinterlands may not serve its purpose as long as human rights are not addressed.

- Brent M. Eastwood (Aug 03, '10)

Moscow faces energy challenge

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is pressing for the country to improve its energy efficiency. Yet with US$92 billion needed merely to upgrade the aging power grid, the cost will be high, and private investment likely to be scarce.

- Sergei Blagov (Jul 29, '10)

Nazarbaev backs Nabucco, criticizes Europe

Nursultan Nazarbaev, president of natural gas-rich Kazakhstan, has thrown his weight behind the Nabucco pipeline, and used a visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel to question why Europe, the eventual terminal of the proposed pipeline, is dragging its feet on the project.

- Robert M Cutler (Jul 28, '10)

Turkey 'not party' to Iran pipeline deal

The government in Ankara, long keen to help the export of Iranian gas, denies being party to a private Turkish company's agreement to build a US$1.3 billion gas pipeline in Iran to the Turkish border. If it is built, and given present sanctions against Tehran, the question of where the gas might go is unanswered.

- Saban Kardas (Jul 28, '10)

China carries Bhutto's dream

President Asif Ali Zardari, now a frequent visitor to Beijing, wants to make real the dream of his assassinated wife Benazir Bhutto to have gas pipelines, railways and highways running between Pakistan and China. New Delhi is watching to see that this does not turn into a nightmare for India.

- Antoaneta Becker (Jul 26, '10)

BP on the run in Pakistan?

BP's decision to sell its assets in Pakistan may be as much to do with security concerns there as with the need for the oil company to pay bills arising from the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. The final price - and buyer - could tell the full story.

- Syed Fazl-e-Haider (Jul 26, '10)

Moscow prepares sanctions workaround

Plans developed by Russia and Iran would circumvent non-United Nations sanctions that target companies linked to the Middle East country's energy sector. Whether Moscow is prepared to hold back from this path now likely depends on what the United States is prepared to offer it.

- Vladimir Socor (Jul 22, '10)

Speaking Freely

China scouts Afghan minerals

A motherlode of resources rediscovered by the Pentagon in Afghanistan has suddenly raised the geo-economic stakes in the ongoing war. The recent visit of China's Foreign Minister to Kabul could portend a marriage between China's experienced mining corporations and Afghanistan's untapped treasures.

- Brent M. Eastwood (Jul 20, '10)

Big Oil makes war on the Earth

United States residents starting to feel the direct impact of the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill are so far experiencing only part of the destructive powers of Big Oil's careless fuel extraction methods, which for decades have brought suffering and loss to less affluent communities around the world.

- Ellen Cantarow (Jul 19, '10)

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Turkmen oil eases Nabucco worry

Greening of China an affair of state

The gulf at the gas station

Subsidy blow for fuel profiteers

Russia to support metals sector

Japanese-Kazakh ties go nuclear

Speaking Freely

China goes West with programs

Moscow faces energy challenge

Nazarbaev backs Nabucco, criticizes Europe

Turkey 'not party' to Iran pipeline deal

China carries Bhutto's dream

BP on the run in Pakistan?

Moscow prepares sanctions workaround

Speaking Freely

China scouts Afghan minerals

Big Oil makes war on the Earth

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