Entries from Energy Wire tagged with 'Iran'
A New OPEC for Gas?
Russia, Iran and Qatar held talks in Tehran yesterday about forming a cartel for natural gas that would resemble the OPEC cartel for oil. But the structure of the natural gas business makes it unlikely that a gas OPEC would get off the ground anytime soon.
Energy Giant Weighs In on Latest Developments
Paolo Scaroni, the chief executive of the Italian oil giant ENI, stopped by the Post this week and chatted about the state of the oil world. ENI's revenues place it among the world's biggest 25 companies of any kind. The company operates in 70 countries, with exploration and production operations from the Gulf of Mexico to Nigeria to Kazakhstan. Much of Europe's natural gas imports flow through its pipelines, and it retails gasoline under the AGIP brand.
Plenty of Pipeline Options. All Bad
Commentators have been quick to point out that Russia's defeat of Georgia has pretty much killed the chances that new oil and gas pipelines will be built to increase the security of supplies to Europe. It's clear that there is little to stop Russia from rolling its forces up to the existing pipeline or knocking it out of commission if it wanted to. The Washington Post's Steve Pearlstein even suggested that demonstrating the pipeline's vulnerability may have been one of the underlying motives for the Russian incursion.
Recent Posts
- China's Oil Demand Tanks
- will.i.am and Energy Efficiency
- Obama's (Gas) Taxing Problem
- Exxon Chief Embraces Carbon Tax
- Ukraine, the Real Crisis on Russia's Doorstep
- Forecasting (or Guessing) the Price of Oil
- OPEC in a Fog
- Obama's Energy Department
- The Last Minute Obama-McCain Coal Debate
- A Turn of Fortune in Russia
Recent Comments
just to remind a real facts for our stupid americn friends. on Plenty of Pipeline Options. All Bad: Will Turke
Jeff Weintraub on Plenty of Pipeline Options. All Bad: Steve Mufs
tarquinis on Plenty of Pipeline Options. All Bad: The only s
Mordant Cowman on Plenty of Pipeline Options. All Bad: First and
Just looking on on Plenty of Pipeline Options. All Bad: I agree wi
Gerald on Plenty of Pipeline Options. All Bad: There inde
Jason on Plenty of Pipeline Options. All Bad: There is n
questionist on Plenty of Pipeline Options. All Bad: RUSSIA did
Peter on Plenty of Pipeline Options. All Bad: If all of