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GET IT OFF YOUR CHEST - Does Europe really need special regulations to protect its energy market?
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- vencor September 21, 2007, 21:22
- Europe is kicking itself in its own feet by passing all these ridiculous regulations! If Oil and gas today have any value today, and the companies associated with, it is because there is DEMAND for them. Thus, whatever the regulations, Europe has to realize one vital fact - i.e. it is Russia and other CIS countries that have the OIL/GAS and not the other way around and thus all these regulations are taking its own investment potentials even farther away!
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- fred September 20, 2007, 11:18
- may be true for gaz ...
as for oil , some experts (none of them crazy !) predict that Russia will stop exporting its oil in 2012 to 2018 (consensus =2015 !) ...
not because they are bad or pissed-off with theirs customers ...
no , just because they will absorb all theirs oil on theirs own market !
the multimillions dollars question :
Russia nowaday is the world's biggest exporter , the saudi oil reserves starts to show theirs limits ...
so what gonna happen with oil price then??
especially if the dollars keep going down at the same pace (USA has so much debts , there is no way to keep the $ at the same value and no wishes for USA to even try =if $ is worth nothing , debts will be lighter ...!)
so yes , the "natural" market for russian oil may be far east ...
but not because it's better , just because far east needs it and thru won't care too much when price will be 250$/barrel ...!!
in other terms = does make it really obvious about the WHY of Irak ??
it's future oil (may be) paid by blood now !
- sam September 20, 2007, 02:57
- There happens to be a massive market for russian gas and oil in the far east.
I am also sure that it costs less piping it from russia then transporting it in tankers from the middle east.
Do not think it will affect russian pocket in the long run but will sure make it more expensive for the EU.This has been known for ages why else was the USSR the main suppier to the west in the cold war times.How ever this is just talk and nothing will come out of it.
- George September 19, 2007, 23:03
- Europe is looking after its own, Russia has to build a gas pipeline to the far east going from its hugh gas fields to the pacific were it will be loaded on tankers and off to the big markets of Asia and away from Europe.....
- fred September 19, 2007, 19:36
- NO ! not at all !
it is only an other example of "double standarts" ...
if WE (U.E.) treat Russia as an equal partner , we don't need such things ...
if WE don't treat Russia as an equal partner , why should they deal with us , anyway ...
- Aardvark September 19, 2007, 18:27
- well, with Gazprom being all-in-one producer, supplier and distributor of gas the Europeans are well justified in being worried. Russia is in no hurry in allowing foreign companies to operate on its gas market - unlike the country's oil market where the multinationals, BP in particular are doing well.
...on the other hand, Gasprom seem to be happy to let outsiders to buy its shares, so some degree of foreign involvement and control over the Russian mammoth is there, after all
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