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  • Construction launched on US-backed Caspian oil pipeline

    09/18/2002 9:12:32 AM PDT · by Willie Green · 23 replies · 277+ views
    Yahoo! ^ | Wednesday, September 18, 2002 | AFP
    For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Photo: AFP SANGACHAL, Azerbaijan (AFP) - The inaugural section of an oil pipeline that will pump crude from the Caspian Sea to Turkey's Mediterranean coast was laid in Azerbaijan, marking the start of construction on the US-backed project.The 2.95-billion-dollar (3.05-billion-euro) pipeline heralds a US-backed challenge to Russia's stranglehold on export routes from the oil-rich Caspian.In a ceremony near Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, heads of state from Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey -- Heidar Aliyev, Eduard Shevardnadze and Ahmet Necdet Sezer -- watched as a length of steel pipe was lowered into the ground."The...
  • TURKEY’S CASPIAN ENERGY QUANDARY

    08/27/2002 8:57:01 PM PDT · by pkpjamestown · 10 replies · 418+ views
    CSIS ^ | August 13, 2002 | Bulent Aliriza Seda Ciftci
    TURKEY’S CASPIAN ENERGY QUANDARY The Turkish agenda has been understandably dominated in recent months by the grave economic crisis and Turkey’s possible role in the United States-led drive for a regime change in Iraq, as well as by the domestic political upheavals that have led to a decision on early elections in November. Consequently, there has been little serious discussion of Turkish energy problems. In fact, until recently, the prevailing mood in Ankara on energy policy was unwaveringly upbeat. Political leaders and officials pointed to Turkey’s vibrant economy and projected energy needs as they focused on the important role the...
  • Russia may deploy new forces in Caspian

    08/11/2002 1:48:47 AM PDT · by Destro · 2 replies · 163+ views
    UPI ^ | 8/10/2002 4:17 PM | Bojan Soc
    Russia may deploy new forces in Caspian By Bojan Soc From the International Desk Published 8/10/2002 4:17 PM MOSCOW, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Russia and some of its Caspian neighbors may create a new military contingent that will be stationed in the region to keep in check security threats, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov told reporters Saturday. The minister added that Kazakh troops would most likely join their Russian counterparts in the multi-national force with the door open to all other parties wishing to join. No details were available on the potential number of troops that could be deployed under...
  • Russia launches military exercises in Caspian

    08/08/2002 7:13:27 PM PDT · by Sawdring · 1 replies · 195+ views
    The Hindu ^ | Aug. 8, 2002
    Moscow, Aug. 8. (DPA): Russia today began its largest ever military exercises in the Caspian, deploying 10,000 men and 60 warships to the inland sea. The manoeuvres were "to enable Russia's defence against real threats", Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov said in the town of Astrakhan. Russia shares the Caspian with Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Iran, and has for years disputed ownership of the vast gas and oil reserves there. The eight-day exercise will rehearse operations against drug running, terrorism and poaching in the sea, where stocks of the caviar-producing sturgeon fish have been depleted to the point of extinction. Azerbaijani...
  • The Caspian: As Negotiations Fail, Iran Hints at Military Action

    07/02/2002 3:41:45 PM PDT · by Axion · 11 replies · 250+ views
    STRATFOR ^ | 2 July 2002 | Staff
    The Caspian: As Negotiations Fail, Iran Hints at Military Action 2 July 2002 Summary Slowly but surely Iran is finding itself squeezed out of any share of the oil and gas revenues from the Caspian Sea. Tehran is responding with hints of military threats, which for now appear to be just rhetoric but may later turn into violence. Analysis The Iranian government is becoming increasingly desperate to claim a share of oil deposits in the resource-rich Caspian Sea. Last week Iranian President Mohammad Khatami resorted to veiled threats when he railed against the foreign presence in the Caspian region. The...
  • Russia draws fine line in Caspian

    05/28/2002 5:47:24 AM PDT · by Prodigal Son · 2 replies · 153+ views
    CDI Russian Weekly ^ | May 21, 2002 | John Helmer
    MOSCOW - Over growing protests from Iran, Russia has decided to draw a fine line in the Caspian Sea to enable oil companies to drill for oil but avoid the legal problems of setting up national sectors in the sea. Russian policy is also aiming to settle the status of the northern Caspian oilfields without antagonizing Iran by pressuring for a similar deal in the southern sector of the sea. An agreement signed last week in Moscow by President Vladimir Putin and President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan "solves the problem of the seabed oil deposits which were subject to disputes",...
  • Russia's Caspian war games not linked to Ashkhabad summit

    05/07/2002 6:41:21 PM PDT · by Sawdring · 215+ views
    Russia Today | May 7, 2002
    Tehran, May 7, IRNA -- Minister of Defense Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani here Tuesday said the upcoming Russian maneuver in the Caspian Sea is not linked with the recent summit of leaders of littoral states in Ashkhabad, Turkmenistan. Speaking on the sidelines of the Exhibition of Smart Defense Systems, Shamkhani said the war games could be a reaction to the presence of trans-regional forces in the sea. He stressed that the Russian military exercises could also be in response to certain provocative remarks regarding the presence of these troops. Shamkhani described the Caspian Sea as the sea of peace and...
  • Pipeline politics

    04/10/2002 4:40:37 PM PDT · by a_Turk · 9 replies · 218+ views
    Hindustan Times ^ | 4/10/2002 | Fred Weir
    The coming Caspian oil boom could break the stranglehold of Persian Gulf countries, and the Saudi-dominated cartel OPEC, on the world's petroleum supplies. But it threatens to make Russia the master of world oil markets. In US’s view, there is a problem: Russia controls the only means of transporting Caspian oil to the world—-the Transneft pipeline network—worth billions of dollars in transit fees. "No one in Washington is ready to accept that Moscow will control the world's oil tap", says Sergei Kazyannov of the Institute of National Security Studies. US oil majors have championed two alternate routes, but until recently...