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Energy in Russia/Caspian
Energy Security in a New World Order by Gawdat Bahgat
Oil policy is shaped by economic interests as well as strategic considerations. In response to rising political instability in the Middle East since the early 2000s, major industrialized...
From: ICEED
"The Iranian Connection": The Geo-Economics of Exporting Central Asian Energy...
This paper looks at the geopolitics and economics of exporting Central Asian energy via Iran. With existing pipelines and access to both the Caspian Sea and Persian Gulf, Iran would seem...
From: ICEED
Opportunities for Energy Investment in Russia and the Republics in the 1990s ...
This article addresses the opportunities for energy investment in the Former Soviet Union in the 1990s. It evaluates the environment for foreign investors and some of the major challenge...
From: ICEED
The Viability of Deregulation in the Russian Gas Industry by Catherine Locatelli
Russia is the world’s leading gas producer. But reforming the gas industry is currently one of the major challenges facing the Russian energy industry in order to pursue its development....
From: ICEED
Russian Oil and Gas: A Realistic Assessment by Ray Leonard
This paper discusses the issues surrounding Russian oil and gas reserves. As of the Soviet Union, reliable hydrocarbon resource assessments were not available to the rest of the world. ...
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Russia’s Oil Prices: International Dimensions of National Specifics by Eugene...
The paper aims at answering a rather complicated question about international and domestic pricing of crude oil: In what way, if at all, do world oil price dynamics affect Russia’s intern...
From: ICEED
Russia's Oil Business: Any Niche for a National Oil Company? by Eugene M. Kha...
After a period of dramatic decentralization and privatization of Russia’s oil industry in the 1990s, which transformed the wholly state-run oil distribution system into mostly privatized ...
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Turkey as a Major Energy Driver by John Roberts
Turkey is the fastest growing energy market in Europe and a magnet for energy suppliers given its own domestic energy constraints. This paper addresses some of the critical issues that T...
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East Asia’s Energy Security: A Russian Perspective? by Eugene M. Khartukov
Russia’s Far East and East Siberia are emerging as major sources of energy supplies for Northeast Asian fuel markets. This will reshape the matrix of the Asia-Pacific energy flows and ma...
From: ICEED
Soviet Economic Decline: Did an Oil Crisis Cause the Transition in the Soviet...
This paper assesses whether the decline of the Soviet system was caused because it became increasingly inefficient in the face of resource scarcity, particularly oil scarcity. A planned ...
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Russia's Oil: Will It Ever Be Globalized? by Eugene M. Khartukov
Since the mid-1990s, Russia’s oil industry has undergone a radical transformation from a wholly state-run and generously subsidized distribution system toward a substantially privatized, ...
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Sino-Russian Oil and Gas Development Cooperation: The Reality and Implication...
The concept of Sino-Russian energy development cooperation was an issue not pondered until the early 1990s. However, this joint Sino-Russian relationship could play a pivotal role in the...
From: ICEED
Japan, Korea, and the Development of Russian Far Eastern Energy Resources by ...
This paper offers an assessment of the role that Russian Far Eastern energy resources could play in meeting the energy needs of Japan and Korea. The article, written in the early 1990s, ...
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