Turkish Stream is a pipeline that would export natural gas from southern Russia through Azerbaijan to Turkey. Gas then would be piped into Europe. As the author of this piece notes, even before the latest downturn in Russo-Turkish relations, the pipeline was wishful thinking.
The prospects for implementing the Turkish Stream gas pipeline project have always been questionable. However, after the incident with the Russian warplane that has been recently shot down by the Turkish Air Force, all hopes for the project implementation came to naught.
Neither Turkey nor Russia is willing to discuss its implementation today. The Kremlin does not intend to comment on the prospects for the Turkish Stream gas pipeline project, the Russian media reported referring to Dmitry Peskov, the press-secretary of the Russian president.
Here two questions arise. Who will be more affected in case of non-implementation of this project? Who really needed it?
Initially, the Turkish Stream project was planned to replace the South Stream and the EU was seen as the end user of the Russian gas supplied via it. But here the Turkish Stream faced with the same problems as its predecessor, namely the EU unwillingness to receive additional volumes of Russian natural gas. The excuse was the third energy package.
But more work was conducted for the South Stream project implementation at its time. The intergovernmental agreements were signed with a number of European countries to implement the onshore part of the project.
As for the Turkish Stream, Russia failed to reach any agreement on the construction of the European part of the gas pipeline. Later, Moscow chose the variant of supplying gas only to the Turkish market.
But problems have been here too. For a long time, Russia and Turkey have failed to settle differences concerning the gas price. Turkey says it will not buy Russian gas without any discount for it.
Apart from that, Ankara sees no need in additional Russian gas, moreover at the price offered by Moscow. And here Turkey is right. Less than three years later, Turkey will start receiving gas from the second development stage at the Azerbaijani Shah Deniz field. The gas is to be transported by the Trans Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP), which is already under construction.
Moreover, Turkey currently hasn’t got enough storage facilities for additional gas, and their construction is very expensive.
Disagreements over a gas price discount have always been considered as one of the main obstacles to implementation of the Turkish Stream. Both parties have been steadfast in this matter. But now it is even much difficult to imagine that any of them will agree to some concessions.
So, the implementation of the Turkish Stream project is postponed until better times.
But it is also possible that in the nearest future Russia, being the initiator of the project, will decide to shut it down, as it did with the South Stream. And given the challenges the project started to face at a very early stage, no one will feel sorry about it.
Posted by: Steve White ||
11/26/2015 00:00 ||
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Eventually Louisiana is going to asphyxiate Yup with $7!gas.
#3
Dream on. I'm afraid it's too late. By 2017 the ISIS invasion of Europe and America will be out of control. The war will be in Europe and America, not in Iraq or Syria.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
11/26/2015 12:51 Comments ||
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that is not what defeating ISIS would look like.
Defeating ISIS would start by expelling all theocratic fascist muslims from within western countries.
If we were defeating ISIS then there would be no airforce ground crews *waiting back at the base in Saudi Arabia* because Saudi Arabia would be cut off. It would be declared an enemy state. It would not be an ally.
So would Pakistan.
cut off. No more aid. No more trade.
The bombs would fall on al-Azhar university.
That is what defeating ISIS would look like.
What a stupid article written by a military minded guy with NO idea.
If you could solve ISIS with bombs we would have done it already. ISIS is not Raqqa. ISIS is Saudi Arabian-spread Islamist fascism.
IF you could solve it with bombs you could press 1 button and nuke Raqqa. The problem would multiply x 100 because the problem is not just *over there* the problem is IN HERE
#5
I wish this would happen, but I believe we all know this is fiction.
Posted by: chris ||
11/26/2015 19:07 Comments ||
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I believe this is both accurate and relevant, notwithstanding the other naysayers: critical for ISIS to maintain its caliphate, a physical nation state-like territory where it could govern, where it could plan and train, and where the fools and psychopaths who bought into its sick philosophy could gather.
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yes i agree getting rid of the Caliphate is important.
but getting rid of it without solving the Ideological problem will just be useless
it will pop up again and again
just like when al-qaeda was fought --- and the ideological war was not addressed --- we got ISIS
You cannot win with military action without tackling the Ideology and that is exactly what we have been doing for 15 years -- and that is why we are LOSING
Posted by: James ||
11/26/2015 20:32 Comments ||
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tackling the Ideology About half the "ideology" is domestic and not Muslim, Americans who will put YouTube versions of "Imagine" on their Facebook pages after the latest jihadi outrage and then wring the wee little hands over another outbreak of Islamophobia, while blaming the rest of our problems on evangelical Christians.
#10
Its known what works on the mind, but posting any comments on that gets the comment deleted quickly.
I will say what a bad guy told me once.
If I attack a man's body I go to jail. If I turn his mind inside out and run it through a wringer washer the worst anybody can charge me with is the lowest level minor assault and effectively I have murdered his mind.
h/t Instapundit
Why are some of the most privileged students in the nation plunging into a racial grievance culture and upending their campuses as though oppressed by Halloween costumes they don't approve, imagined racial slights, portraits of Woodrow Wilson, a tiny handful of real racial epithets, and the like?
The reasons are of course multifaceted. But one deserves far more attention than it has gotten: Many or most of the African-American student protesters really are victims -- but not of old-fashioned racism.
Most are, rather, victims of the very large admissions preferences that set up racial-minority students for academic struggle at the selective universities that have cynically misled them into thinking they are well qualified to compete with classmates who are, in fact, far stronger academically.
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They have a void in their heart and soul, it can never be filled with things or emotion. They lack confidence because they've never been challenged and they know it.
#7
I wouldn't say all evil but it's certainly bad enough.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
11/26/2015 12:24 Comments ||
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Most are, rather, victims of the very large admissions preferences that set up racial-minority students for academic struggle at the selective universities
Of course, they're perfectly happy to take advantage of these preferences when it suits them, so my sympathy meter is at zero.
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