Recently added articles from APS Review Downstream Trends:
Turkmenistan's Decision Makers.
Sep 29, 2008 ... Like his predecessor, dictator Saparmurat Niyazov who died unexpectedly on Dec. 21, 2006, elected President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov is the man who makes the decisions for the petroleum sector and all matters of importance to Turkmenistan. He signs the E&P deals or JV deals with foreign ...
Turkmenistan - Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.
Sep 29, 2008 ... Elected President and sworn in on Feb. 14, 2007, in an event attended by Russia's then PM Mikhail Fradkov and Alexei Miller, who remains CEO of Kremlin-controlled Gazprom, Berdimuhamedov was from Dec. 21, 2006, an interim ruler suddenly chosen for this post by a group of special interests ...
Turkmenistan - Reforms & Attracting Foreign Investments.
Sep 29, 2008 ... In March and April 2008, Berdimuhamedov issued a series of directives to reform the country's educational system which his predecessor had turned to his own way of thinking and limited to what he wanted the Turkmen to learn. He ordered measures to reform the healthcare system, which ...
Turkmenistan - Niyazov's Legacies Are Ending.
Sep 29, 2008 ... With the support of those who brought him to power, in late 2007 Berdimuhamedov began to project himself as a reformer. After ordering the drafting of a new constitution, he has gradually eliminated aspects of Niyazov's personality cult. One by one, with each calculated to go at an ...
Turkmenistan's Refining, Chemical & Industrial Base.
Sep 22, 2008 ... The oil refining industry in Turkmenistan is being modernised. Under a set of projects now costing over $4 bn and launched several years ago, the country's two refineries are being upgraded. Since mid-2002, Ashgabat has been considering a new 100,000 b/d refinery to be built under another ...
Turkmenistan - The Refining Sector.
Sep 22, 2008 ... Refined oil products for local use and for exports are processed at the two refineries, which have a total capacity of 237,000 b/d and are located at Seidi (formerly Chardzhou) and Turkmenbashi (which used to be known as Krasnovodsk). The refining ...
The Turkmenbashi Refining Complex.
Sep 22, 2008 ... Located on the Caspian coast in western Turkmenistan, this refinery has a capacity of 116,500 b/d. It has been modernised and upgraded under a $1.5-2 bn programme consisting of several projects. One of the upgrades was implemented by Merhav Corp. of Israel under a $500m contract ...
Turkmenistan - LPG Output & Exports.
Sep 22, 2008 ... Since independence, LPG production capacities have increased almost 20 times thanks to installation of new technological units at the Turkmenbashi complex and gas fields in the east of Turkmenistan. In particular, gas from the abundant reserves of Zaunguz Karakum fields is processed at the ...
Turkmenistan - Petrochemicals.
Sep 22, 2008 ... The Turkmen chemicals industry is small. There is potential for a large export-oriented petrochemical sector to develop in the country in view of its huge oil and gas resources, and its relatively small domestic market. Now Turkmenistan meets much of its needs for plastics and ...
TURKMENISTAN - Energy Base.
Sep 15, 2008 ... Turkmenistan's energy base shrank from almost 17 million t/y of oil equivalent in 1989 to 11.1m t/yoe in 1995, but grew back to the 1989 size in 2003, reached 18m t/yoe in 2006, having averaged 17.3m t/yoe in 2005, and may average about 19m t/yoe or more in 2008. The country is rich in ...
TURKMENISTAN - The Power Sector.
Sep 15, 2008 ... Turkmenistan is more than self-sufficient in electrical power generation, producing about 14 bn Kwh annually. The country exports power to Afghanistan, Armenia, Iran and Turkey. Turkey recently asked for an increase in the quantity of electricity purchased from Turkmenistan ....
TURKMENISTAN - The Economic Base.
Sep 15, 2008 ... Turkmenistan used to be one of the poorest and least developed parts of the world during the Soviet era. Things have improved since April 1999, when oil prices began rising (see omt12TurkmGlblPros-Sep15-08). The economy relies heavily on oil and natural gas production. But the prospects ...
Russia's Decision Makers - Putin Stakes It All.
Sep 08, 2008 ... Russia has turned a corner in Putin's stand-off with the Bush administration over Georgia and he seems inclined to think the crisis should cause a rethink of a global system dominated by the US. Though he knew the stakes in repelling an attack by a key ally of the US on a pro-Russia ...
Putin Mapping Greater Russia Boundaries?
Sep 08, 2008 ... Philip Stephens wrote in the FT of Aug. 29: "We need to get this straight. Vladimir Putin's Russia has invaded a neighbour, annexed territory and put in place a partial military occupation. It seeks to overthrow the president of Georgia and to overturn the global geo-political order. It ...
Russia Vs China.
Sep 08, 2008 ... "For all the occasional bluster about a new authoritarian axis between Moscow and Beijing, the contrast that has most struck me in recent weeks has been between China and Russia. Beijing saw the Olympics as a celebration of China's return as a great power. China has by no means signed up ...
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
Sep 08, 2008 ... Through a complex web combining reformist technocrats and agents of the FSB (the name of a revived KGB of which he was a graduate), PM Putin controls the decision makers for all the sectors. As president from 2000 to May 7, 2008, he had curbed the powers of Russia's 89 governors and local ...
The Russian Perspective - The Crisis In The Caucasus & Black Sea.
Sep 01, 2008 ... Russia has gained de facto control over two major Black Sea ports - Sukhumi and Poti. Critics of the Bush administration's strategy say that, even if the US-backed President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine creates obstacles for the Russian fleet based in the Crimean port of Sevastopol - in ...
West Tells Russia To Keep Out Of Ukraine.
Sep 01, 2008 ... Gazprom, Rosneft, LUKoil and other Russian energy companies have invested heavily in Ukraine - by far the biggest transit route for Russian gas exports to the EU. Britain on Aug. 27 led a chorus of EU support for Ukraine as Western fears rose of possible Russian attempts to build on its ...
US Tightening Russian Investment.
Sep 01, 2008 ... Along with a further increase in the reluctance of EU and US firms to invest in Russia, the FT on Aug. 23 quoted experts as predicting that investments by Russian firms and sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) into the US were likely to face tougher scrutiny in Washington. While billions of ...
Somber Czech Memories.
Sep 01, 2008 ... Forty years after the Soviet Army crushed a stirring for greater freedoms in Czechoslovakia known as the Prague Spring, it was not a column of tanks which government officials said they feared most, but an assertive Russia shutting off the spigots of its crucial supplies of oil and gas ....