Caspian Energy Investor ¹ 21 (254)  22 June 2007


ACCENT


  • AZERBAIJAN WITH ITS GAS POTENTIAL IS ENTERING THE EU MARKET - ILHAM ALIYEV


    • BAKU SUMMIT OF GUAM IS A CONFIRMATION OF GROWING INTERNATIONAL AUTHORITY OF ORGANZIATION

    This week (June 19, Baku, Gulustan Palace) the 2nd Summit of heads of member-states of the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development – GUAM took place. President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received President of Ukraine Victor Yutshchenko, President of Poland Lech Kaczynski, President of Romania Trajan Basescu, President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus, President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, Vice-President of Bulgaria Angel Marin and Prime-Minister of Moldova Vasile Tarlev. Participating in the meeting were also the delegations of USA, Latvia, Estonia and Japan.


    EXCLUSIVE


  • NABUCCO PROJECT’S CORNER STONE IS CASPIAN GAS - DIMITAR GOGOV, DIRECTOR GENERAL, BULGARGAZ

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    “At present Bulgaria’s gas needs are evaluated as approx 3-3.5 billion m3 per annum. Gas consumption shows a normal increase, which makes 3-5% a year. In Bulgaria gas is mainly used at industrial entities, whereas people almost do not have gas. The creation of such infrastructure is underway now. Therefore, we guess within the next decade the consumption growth will amount to 3-5%. Bulgaria intends to enjoy nearly 1-1.5 billion m3 from the Nabucco project in future”, Dimitar Gogov, Director General, Bulgargaz said in the exclusive interview to Caspian Energy Investor.


  • NATURAL GAS WILL TURN INTO ONE OF THE WORLD'S MAIN ENERGY SOURCES IN ONLY LESS THAN TWO DECADES – NIGC OFFICIAL

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    «We have a program covering natural gas to European countries in amount of 100-150 mcmd. Today our gas export via Turkey is 25-26 mcmd. Furthermore, we have several projects on gas export via Pakistan and India. Too, we are going to import certain amounts of gas from Turkmenistan», said V.R. Zeydifard, Senior Pipeline Expert, National Iranian Gas Company, in his interview with Caspian Energy Investor.


    CASPIAN REGION


  • Kazakhstan

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    TRANSPORTATION


  • Baku-Tbilisi-Kars

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  • North-South

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    ECONOMY


  • «WE THINK CREATION OF MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL STRUCTURE TO HANDLE FILLING ODESSA-BRODI PIPELINE» -NATIG ALIYEV

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    “Diversification of safe and secure routes of hydrocarbons delivery to the Eastern Europe is one of the most actual and important issues», said today (June 19) Minister of Industry and Energy of Azerbaijan Natig Aliyev.


  • ISSUE OF AZERI GAS SUPPLIES TO GEORGIA TO B SOLVED SHORTLY


    • «Today we are resolved to increase the delivery of Azerbaijani gas to Georgia as we have such a capacity and it gets higher day by day», said today (June 19) Minister of Industry and Energy of Azerbaijan Natig Aliyev.


  • «AZERBAIJAN’S PETROCHEMICAL COMPLEX DEVELOPMENT ISSUE SHALL BE TAKEN MORE SERIOUSLY», NATIG ALIYEV

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    In order to develop our petrochemical complex in Azerbaijan we should prepare a special program and first of all we would like to analyze our capacities», said today (June 19) Minister of Industry and Energy of Azerbaijan Natig Aliyev.