Pipelineistan

Pipelinestan "encompasses Macedonia, Iraq, possibly Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and maybe a few more 'stans'." 


 * "With all the devious subterfuge now [February 2002] inferencing a Bush/Cheney/Enron connection, one has to wonder whether Enron played a role in the 'Pipelinestan' dilemma that has plagued our involvement in Afghanistan for the last decade? Enron had a huge stake in a natural-gas-fired power plant in India. Enron had a huge problem in finding cheap gas to fuel that plant. ... To find a link, one has only to connect the dots."


 * "In 2004, commercial and security ties between Kazakhstan and China were strengthened when Beijing signed a deal with Astana to build a pipeline from the Caspian Sea to western China."


 * "The pipeline deal with Kazakhstan prompted Beijing to pledge increased military and technical assistance to Kyrgyzstan, through which this pipeline passes. Despite its small size and lack of natural resources, the geostrategic importance of Kyrgyzstan, which hosts military bases for both Russia and the US, is enormous."

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 * peak oil: we have oil
 * Russia's oil industry

External articles

 * "Taleban in Texas for talks on gas pipeline," BBC, December 4, 1997: "A senior delegation from the Taliban movement in Afghanistan [was] in the United States for talks with" Unocal "that wants to construct a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan across Afghanistan to Pakistan" and which "says it has agreements both with Turkmenistan to sell its gas and with Pakistan to buy it."
 * Michel Collon, "The West's objectives in its war against Yugoslavia," Solidaire (translation), March 31, 1999: "The oil of the Middle East, as well as that of the former Soviet Union (the Caucases, the Caspian Sea and Kazakhstan)! Three pipelines are competing to bring oil from the former Soviet Union to Europe. Around these pipelines wars are breaking out everywhere â?? Chechenya, Georgia, Nagorny-Karabakh, Kurdistan. ... Controlling such a pipeline brings in fees for 'rights of passage' amounting to $20 million a DAY! Above all it is the US who wishes to control this black gold by depriving their European rivals of it. This is why they have just got themselves 'invited' to install a military base in Azerbaijan."
 * Jonathan Power, "America's Push on the Caspian Pipeline is Not Good Sense for the Oil Companies," The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, December 2, 1999.
 * Michel Collon, "Caspian Sea's Oil Reserves," International Tribunal for U.S./NATO War Crimes in Yugoslavia, June 10, 2000.
 * "The oil behind Bush and Son's campaigns," Inter Press Service, October 6, 2001.
 * Uwe Parpart, "Reconstructing Afghanistan - on oil and gas," Asia Times, November 24, 2001.
 * Dale Allen Pfeiffer, "The Forging of Pipelineistan," [From the Wilderness], 2002.
 * Wayne Madsen, "Afghanistan, the Taliban and the Bush Oil Team," Centre for Research on Globalization, January 23, 2002.
 * Sergei Blagov, (Turkmenistan's leader) "Turkmenbashi reaches out," Asia Times, January 24, 2002.
 * John Helmer, "Russian oil a challenge to OPEC," Asia Times, January 25, 2002.
 * Pepe Escobar, "Pipelineistan, Part 1: The rules of the game," Asia Times, January 25, 2002.
 * Pepe Escobar, "Pipelineistan, Part 2: The games nations play," Asia Times, January 26, 2002.
 * Ron Callari, "ENRON and the End Run," The American Partisan, February 8, 2002.
 * Christian Dewar, "Bush, Oil, and the Taliban," Democratic Underground, March 30, 2002.
 * "Massive pipeline project under way in China," Asia Times, July 6, 2002.
 * Hamid Hussain, "The Slick Business of Oil. Story of Power, Politics, Petroleum and Pipelines," Defence Journal, August 2002.
 * Paul Stewart, "Caspian Basin oil pipeline company founded," wsws, August 30, 2002.
 * Saman Sepehri, "The Geopolitics of Oil," International Socialist Review, December 2002.
 * Daphne Eviatar, "Public Money in the Pipeline," Mother Jones, January/February 2003: "When ExxonMobil and BP need millions to pay for their oil projects, who do they turn to? The U.S. government."
 * Sergei Blagov, "Russia's single-minded pursuit of energy," Asia Times, January 25, 2003.
 * Hooman Peimani, "Russia turns to Iran for oil exports," Asia Times, February 11, 2003.
 * Sergei Blagov, "Russia eyes billions in transport connection," Asia Times, May 8, 2003.
 * Paola Ceragioli and Maurizio Martellini, "The geopolitics of pipelines," Asia Times, May 29, 2003.
 * John Berthelsen, "World Bank backs Caspian pipeline," Asia Times, November 6, 2003.
 * Pepe Escobar, "Pipelineistan revisited" (Part 12a) and "Pipelineistan Revisited (Part 12b), "Silk Road Roving" series, Asia Times, December 24 and 25, 2003.
 * "Scramble for Pipelineistan," Radio Netherlands, January 16, 2004.
 * Adam Wolfe, "China's Demand for Energy is Reshaping Power Structures Around the World," Power and Interest News Report, February 25, 2004.
 * "Taliban in Texas: Big Oil hankers for old pals," Asia Times, May 18, 2004.
 * Erin E. Arvedlund and Jonathan Fuerbringer, "Yukos Warns of Export Halt, Driving Oil to 21-Year High," New York Times, July 29, 2004. See YukosSibneft Oil Company.
 * Anup Shah, "Crisis in Chechnya," globalissues.org, updated September 4, 2004.
 * Erin E. Arvedlund, "In Moscow, U.S. Strives for Greater Share of Oil Exports,", New York Times, May 25, 2005.
 * Pepe Escobar, "Pipelineistan's biggest game begins," Asia Times, May 26, 2005. See Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline.
 * Pepe Escobar, "Iran takes over Pipelineistan," Asia Times, September 10, 2005.
 * Pepe Escobar, "In the heart of Pipelineistan," Asia Times, March 17, 2006.
 * Pepe Escobar, "Russia and Iran lead the new energy game," Asia Times, July 12, 2006.
 * Ariel Cohen, "Eurasian pipelines - a forecaster's nightmare," The Heritage Foundation, May 1, 2009.