Azerbaijan
Data on Azerbaijan's oil revenues incomplete, inconsistent
April 16, 2010In recent years, Azerbaijan's State Oil Company (SOCAR) has reduced the volume of information in successive annual reports about its revenues, according to participants in a roundtable discussion in Baku earlier this week. The proceedings were summarized...
Kremlin renews its focus on the contest for Turkmen gas
January 04, 2010By Vladimir Socor Russia Resuming Gas Imports From Turkmenistan on a Small Scale On December 22 in Ashgabat, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his counterpart in Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov witnessed the signing of documents on the...
Moldova's industrial output and freight turnover decline in 2009
August 20, 2009Moldova registered the CIS worst industrial output and freight turnover indicators for the first half-year. According to the CIS Committee for Statistics, the average industrial slippage for the first half-year in the CIS countries constituted 15% against...
Nabucco Intergovernmental Agreement Signed in Ankara
July 14, 2009By Saban Kardas On July 13 the Nabucco transit countries removed an important obstacle for the strategic pipeline project. Attending a high profile meeting hosted by Turkey, the prime ministers of Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Turkey inked...
Azerbaijan-Russia Gas Agreement: a Wakeup Call to EU and US
July 02, 2009By Vladimir Socor Meeting in Baku on June 29, Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev witnessed the signing of an agreement on Azerbaijani gas deliveries to Russia. The initial volumes are small, but the agreement...
Economic Crisis Threatens to Kill Off the CIS
June 25, 2009By Paul Goble The economic crisis in the Russian Federation and other post-Soviet states may finally lead to the complete collapse of the Commonwealth of Independent States because, in the absence of agreement on a common plan of action, the number...
Turkey's Government Obstructs Azerbaijan's Gas Outlet to Europe
March 17, 2009by Vladimir Socor During a recent public debate in Brussels on Turkey's energy policies, several panelists advised Turkey's Energy Minister Hilmi Guler, who participated in the panel, that Ankara is "overplaying its hand" by setting unacceptable...
Azerbaijan to start building $4-bln refinery in Turkey in 2008
September 28, 2007The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan will start building a $4 billion oil refinery in Turkey in 2008, company president Rovnag Abdullayev said Thursday. The refinery, expected to have capacity of 15 million tons annually and to consist of an oil refining...
Azerbaijan to grant $1 million to Moldova for overcoming consequences of drought
August 20, 2007Azerbaijan will donate $1 million to Moldova as financial assistance for overcoming a hard situation in the agricultural sector. Tarlev's Azeri colleague Artur Rasi-zade told it to him on telephone on Saturday. He remarked that the Cabinet of Ministers...
