Energy Geopolitics
Oily Business: Crude Oil, November deal and Uncertainty
T he stage is set. The world waits. There are murmurs and whispers. There are speculations and surmises. On 30th November OPEC...
A Tough Row to Hoe
A ll seemed hunky-dory. The air was suffused with a sanguine current cascading through the markets and rallying up the prices touching a...
BRICS and the Doctrine of Energy Cooperation
Authors: Urmila Rao* and Manish Vaid One of the prime outcomes of the BRICS Summit 2016, (October 15-16, Goa, India) was setting up of...
Oil- A Slippery Friend
I still recall seeing articles, reading news and perusing opinions clamoring with a ‘no deal’ jargon. Belonging to the same pessimistic guild I was...
Is US the new swing producer of Oil/ Crude Realities: A Rift fueled by Oil?
Have you ever noticed that The United States of America, the police-man of the world, also knows how to make the best burger (McDonalds),...
India’s gas-based economy vision seeks subsea pipeline option
Authors: Manish Vaid and Darshit Paun India’s hunt for developing a sustainable economy should not only involve the push towards renewable energy sources but...
Natural Gas – A Game Changer for European Geopolitics
In 1945, Europe became bifurcated along two ideological camps; communism and capitalism. As the iron curtain-shrouded Europe, the geopolitical divide was defined. Nowhere was...
Hydrocarbons and the Turkey – Cyprus relations
By Floros Flouros(*) and Dr. Athanasios Dagoumas In this study, the importance of HydroCarbon (HxCY) exploration in Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) and most particularly...
Some Applications of Non Equilibrium Thermodynamics Thinking to Current Geopolitical Issues
In recent decades, there has been a development of several related concepts, some under the category of thermodynamics, which may be applied, to some...
Nord Stream Nr. 2: The Project’s Implications in Europe
Russia, Germany and a consortium of Western European companies have re-activated the Gazprom-led Nord Stream Two gas pipeline project. Parallel to the existing Nord...