Caspian Energy Weekly ¹ 30 (184)     18 November 2005


ACCENT


  • CASPIAN STATUS AGAIN AT AGENDA
    LEGAL CASPIAN STATUS CONVENTION IS 60% READY

    The 19th conference of the special group on development of convention for legal Caspian status was held on November 22-23 at Astana. Kazakhstan offered to set up the fish zone and common water area in the Caspian territorial sea

  • KAZAKHSTAN, AZERBAIJAN, TURKMENISTAN, RUSSIA, IRAN - 2000-2025 (beginning at issue No. 33)


    Caspian Energy analytical group

    Russia: one of the perspective areas To Russia, the Caspian Sea represents just one of a number of oil&gas regions. The Russian sector of the sea has largely been unexplored and its oil majors have instead placed emphasis on efforts to exploit the existing fields in Western Siberia, which has a well-developed system of infrastructure in place. This was caused by the absence of modern technologies during the Soviet period allowing hydrocarbon production in ecologically sensitive areas of the Caspian Sea. Therefore, foreign investment in the Russian oil industry is concentrated so far on Sakhalin Island and the Russian Arctic as well as Western Siberia. Eastern Siberia is emerging into focus as the government seeks to license new oil fields and develop the region, but the Caspian region is already in the interest sector of Russian companies.


    • CASPIAN REGION


  • Kazakhstan


  • Turkmenistan


  • Iran


  • Russia



    • GAS


  • KAZAKHSTAN IS READY TO SUPPLY GAS TO GEORGIA
    ARRANGEMENT WITH MOSCOW IS NECESSARY…

    Georgia is trying to receive Central Asian gas. Principally the arrangement has already been achieved. However Russian gas monopolist Gazprom will not agree with such a decision. For formation of events' development Georgian high rank officials "landing" entourage "landed" in Moscow.

  • NEW RING - "BLUE STREAM"


    RUSSIAN, TURKISH AND ITALIAN NEW GAS PROSPECTS

    Russia, Turkey and Italy celebrated in November 18 the worthy economically, politically and technologically unique project - "Blue stream" gas pipeline. The pipe has connected the Russian and Turkish coast of the Black Sea does not have analogues in the world. "Blue stream" has been commissioned three years ago. In February 2003 it fulfilled gas supplies. However the various problems - corruption scandals in Turkey, disputed Russian-Turkish negotiations about gas supplies - have not allowed to celebrate these events in a big way at that time.


    • MEP



    TRANSPORTATION


  • Baku-Novorossiysk

  • Atasu-Alashankou

  • Odessa-Brody

  • North-South


    • ECONOMY



    SOCAR


  • Drilling


    • CONSORTIA


  • East Azeri

  • "Kurovdag"


    • COMPANIES


  • AVOID 100% WESTWARDS PIPELINES' LOADING
    Our main task is providing the Russian oilmen with opportunities to diversify the direction of oil export supplies by reducing price hazards.

    President of JSC "Transneft", Mr. Semen Vainshtok


    • WORLD MARKET