OGPSS - Ukraine moves to escape Gazprom's grip

You know it is winter when Russia and Ukraine publically row about supplies of natural gas. On Tuesday Ukraine completed the signing of an ...

OGPSS - Iranian potential and the Caspian disputes

As we come to the end of the year, Leanan continues to point to the many stories that now fill the media reporting on the perception that t...

OGPSS - Iran and the possibility of natural gas exports

There has been much talk in the current Presidential debates about possible changes in US Energy Policy, with Governor Romney suggesting th...

OGPSS - Chinese gas shale development

On occasion, the British Government goes through an internal shake-up that leads to various pundits trying to explain to us lesser mortals w...

OGPSS - pipelines, a help that can be costly

I have written about the limitations in the free flow of oil because of the increasingly heavy and sour nature of the reserves that are now ...

The changing state of Turkmen gas exports

As the Financial Times has noted, while all the world watched Copenhagen, a rather more ultimately significant event took place in Turkmeni...

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...

Russia, Ukraine and the annual gas game

There is a developing tradition at the end of the year, in which Russia gets into a spat with Ukraine about the payment of the Ukrainian gas...

Availability and Profitability of Natural Gas and LNG

It is a little difficult to predict, just at the moment, which way the natural gas situation is going to swing over the next year. The numb...

Turkmenistan, Nabucco, Azerbaijan and Russian natural gas

Robert Cutler has an interesting article in Gundogar this week in which he asks, concerning the recent articles questioning the size of Tur...