Articles tagged with: natural gas#
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Thursday, 2 May, 2013
In Pakistan’s feverish election season, politicians in the country are promising an array of solutions to an excruciating crisis: its acute energy shortage. There seems to be a broad national consensus that importing Iranian natural gas via a 1700-mile pipeline could go a long way to lessening the pain of the power shortage. The United States, however, is firmly against this project, which Washington regards as a breach of the sanctions imposed on Tehran. Both Islamabad and Washington are seem...
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Wednesday, 2 Jan, 2013
The tumultuous events of the past few months have left onlookers wondering just how natural gas has emerged as the Middle East’s latest rabble-rouser. Once spurned by conventional crude oil producers as the ugly little sister, natural gas has surged to the center of several geopolitical tussles taking place in and around the Middle East. As the Eastern Hemisphere’s major gas holders are drawn into this conflict, all eyes are fixed on a country with no oil or gas production of its own: Tu...
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Wednesday, 10 Oct, 2012
Iraq could become the second-largest oil exporter in the world by the 2030s, according to a study released on 9 October by the International Energy Agency (IEA).
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Thursday, 17 May, 2012
It has long been speculated that oil can be a driver for civil conflict, and one needs to look no further for evidence than the sectarian power politics now playing out in Iraq...
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