Afghan oil, and gold, and iron

I noted today that the Afghan government is beginning to pin some hopes on oilfield development as a way of helping generate some desperate...

Pakistan load shedding, IPI, TAPI and what chance of change

While for many in the West the thought of fuel shortages is a “sometime” future thing, and there is enough energy supply around that there i...

Coal, water and an Afghan problem of reality

It has been the first full day of the conference on innovations in coal production, and by the evening we delegates were ready for our eveni...

More on Turkmenistan and gas sales

A couple of days ago I was writing of the promise inherent in a meeting between the Turkmen President, Gerbanguly Berdymukhamedov and Presid...