The report highlights clashes of interests with regard to the new routes of oil transportation. It attentively discusses the construction of pipelines for oil transportation from the Russian North as well as hydrocarbons transportation from the Caspian Sea and Eastern Siberia. The paper studies the stances of the state-owned and private companies, and interests of the key politicians.
The report thrashes out the following topics:
- Prospects for Oil Production Increase in Russia. The plans of the State and oil companies to enhance oil export, prospective challenges of the world hydrocarbon market.
- Projects of Transneft. The report analyzes the construction of the second link of the Baltic Pipeline System, Druzhba - Adrija link, plans for port terminals expansion in Novorossiysk and Tuapse.
- Possibility of the State Being Derived of Its Monopoly on Oil Transportation. Private oil companies' attempts to lobby a row of projects: Murmansk, Varandey, and Sakhalin. Political and economic reasons for private pipelines construction, the authorities' position.
- Russia and the Caspian Sea. Problems of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium.
- Fight for Eastern Siberian Oilfields. Projects of YUKOS and BP - TNK's versus those of state-run Rosneft and Transneft.
- The Political Profile of New Pipelines Construction. The struggle of the key political groups of Putin's regime and their contradicting visions of the hydrocarbon export.
- Results & Prospects
Release date - June 30, 2003
Size - 60 pages
Price - ?350 according to the Central Bank exchange rate on the day of payment
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