Turkmen Gas Riches Revive Pipe Dreams
16/10/2008Analisi di Bruce Pannier per RFERL con stralcio di mia intervista sulle nuove, clamorose stime riguardanti le riserve di gas naturale turkmene.
The announcement this week that Turkmen gas riches may exceed the West’s wildest dreams is likely to focus attention back on pipeline projects that bypass Russia in pumping Caspian energy supplies to European markets.
White Stream, a pipeline first proposed by Ukrainian officials in 2005, is just one such project that looks set to come under the spotlight following a Western audit of a key gas field in Turkmenistan, which showed that the Central Asian country has enough reserves to become a “world-class” gas supplier. White Stream and proposed projects such as the trans-Caspian and Nabucco pipelines are aimed at enhancing Western energy independence by transporting Caspian gas supplies to Europe while skirting Russia.
Altri contributi in materia, quelli di M K Bhadrakumar su Asia Times Online e di Vladimir Socor su Eurasia Daily Monitor.
