Energy Geopolitics
Pipelines or Pipe Dreams? Turkey’s Role in Future European Energy Policy
T urkey demonstrates obvious and unique geostrategic significance for the Euro-Atlantic community and as an influential player at the center of Western...
Relevance of Hydrocarbon sector in changing energy scenario
T he British Royal Navy was the largest and the most technically advanced naval force in the early half of the 20th...
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...