09.08.2008
Krieg ums kaspische Öl
Mit Waffengewalt wollen westliche Multis die russische Vorherrschaft über die gigantischen Vorkommen brechen
Von Jürgen Elsässer
Die georgische Pipeline von British Petroleum ist ein Flop. Gazprom eröffnet eine Röhre nach der anderen. Mit Krieg soll der russische Vorsprung eliminiert werden.
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http://www.neues-deutschland.de/arti...ische-oel.html
Kampf um Öl am Kaukasus
Ölpreis und Gazprom-Aktie:
Ölpreis und BP-Aktie:
BP und Gazprom:
Georgia Oil & Gas News: http://oilandgas.einnews.com/georgia
The Russians may just bear with the pro-US Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili’s ambition to bring his country into NATO. But they draw a heavy line against his plans and those of Western oil companies, including Israeli firms, to route the oil routes from Azerbaijan and the gas lines from Turkmenistan, which transit Georgia, through Turkey instead of hooking them up to Russian pipelines.
Saakashvili need only back away from this plan for Moscow to ditch the two provinces’ revolt against Tbilisi. As long as he sticks to his guns, South Ossetia and Abkhazia will wage separatist wars.
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At present, about four-fifths of
Kazakhstan's oil has nowhere to go but through Russia's pipeline system. Half of the rest is exported through the
Georgian Black Sea port of Batumi, the seaside capital of the formerly rebellious Georgian province of Ajaria. The other half of the rest goes to China, which wishes to quadruple its oil imports from Kazakhstan from 100,000 to 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) by the end of the decade, although Kazakhstan, perhaps because of its experience with Russia, is hesitating at the prospect.
...weiterer Hintergrund zu den Pipeline-Verhältnissen dort: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/JG08Ag01.html