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• Land-locked Central Asian Oil Country Plays Important Role from Vancouver to Vladivostock

  Published 21 January 2010 | viewed 2,485 times

  2010 is starting with a decision that faced heated debates: Kazakhstan will hold the chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)…

• Media and Political Hysteria Over Yemen Hides a Deeper Strategic Matrix of Long-Term Importance

  Published 19 January 2010 | viewed 2,972 times

  US and Western European political leaders have begun to focus on Yemen as a source of projected instability and as a haven for jihadist terrorism…

• Oil Prices Fall as Winter Premium Melts Away

  Published 16 January 2010 | viewed 3,168 times

  Crude oil futures fell for five straight sessions as warmer weather in the U.S. dispelled forecasts of unusually low temperatures and allowed concerns about demand…

• Central Asia's Most Precious Resource - Water, Not Oil

  Published 12 January 2010 | viewed 2,321 times

  "In every drop of water there is a grain of gold." - Aral proverb Since the 1991 collapse of the USSR, foreign investors have looked…

• Regulators Seek to Throw Light on Hedge Fund Impact in Energy Trading

  Published 11 January 2010 | viewed 2,229 times

  Do hedge funds have an impact on energy trading? While the answer might seem intuitive, the debate as to whether they actually do has come…

• The Myth Of Nabucco: Greed, Delusion and $11.4 Billion

  Published 04 January 2010 | viewed 2,800 times

  Inside Beltwayistan, a number of Bushevik oil patch zombies still roam the recession-blasted landscape mindlessly chanting their Caspian mantra, "Happiness is multiple pipelines" - with…

• Re-Thinking the Art of Military Planning

  Published 30 December 2009 | viewed 2,918 times

  It is often assumed that what preoccupies military planners is their attempts to define the shape of future warfare so that they can adequately prepare…

• Iraq Oil Output to Rival Saudi Arabia, if...

  Published 28 December 2009 | viewed 4,628 times

  BAGHDAD - What was once considered a pipe-dream could become reality: after decades of dictatorship, war and international sanctions, Iraq's massive oil reserves are set…

• China Secures Gas Supply From Turkmenistan: Whos the True Winner?

  Published 23 December 2009 | viewed 2,712 times

  On December 14, 2009, an inauguration took place that deserves more attention than it received because it marks an economic power shift to the benefit…

• Africa's Increasing Importance in the Great Geopolitical Game

  Published 14 December 2009 | viewed 2,540 times

  China's completion of an historic natural gas pipeline with Kazakhstan bypassing Russia this week tightens the Asian behemoth's grip on energy resources needed to fuel…

• What's Happening with Iraq's Oil

  Published 08 December 2009 | viewed 3,789 times

  As multinational military forces have left Iraq, international petroleum companies have eagerly descended - seduced by the long-term potential of vast oil reserves off-limits to…

• Iran's Nuclear Ambitions Highlight Kazakhstan's Uranium Potential

  Published 30 November 2009 | viewed 2,519 times

  One bonus of the global recession is that it wiped a lot of incompetent hedge fund managers and energy speculators from the canyons of Wall…

• Solar Energy Showing Promising Signs After Years of Disappointment

  Published 25 November 2009 | viewed 2,774 times

  After years of over promising and under delivering, the solar Industry is finally starting to show some interesting developments which have the potential to make…

• Distorted IEA Oil Reserve Figures Create Biofuel Opportunities In "White Gold" Region of Central Asia

  Published 23 November 2009 | viewed 2,389 times

  The recent revelations of a International Energy Administration whistleblower that the IEA may have distorted key oil projections under intense U.S. pressure is, if true…

• The Great Geopolitical Battle Over Energy Transit Routes

  Published 18 November 2009 | viewed 3,063 times

  As we all live in the present, it is very hard to fully assess the future implications of decisions supported or made by political and…

• Can Precious Metals Keep on Flying?

  Published 16 November 2009 | viewed 2,944 times

  Are you sold on gold? The precious metal outperformed every major equity index in the world in 2008. The question is, can gold -- and…

• The Untapped Energy Riches of Uzbekistan

  Published 11 November 2009 | viewed 3,498 times

  While many Western investors remain fixated on somehow acquiring a slice of Turkmenistan's natural gas riches, despite a recent scandal over the country's actual reserves,…