"Okay, where do you get all this information?"
Have a big interest in energy economics.
The proposed pipelines out of Iran (opposed by the US for years and years), but now tentatively approved by Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India... as well as the old Occidental proposed north/south cross Afghanistan line (still just vapor), and all the pipelines designed to gain access to Central Asia's oil and gas wealth (most by-passing Russia of course, who mostly has monopoly access now for export markets and thus a stranglehold on Khazak, Uzbek, etc. oil/gas exports) that have recently opened or will soon open, for example the Uzbek-to-China line expected to open in a few years, or the Azeri-to-Turkey via Georgia (Baku-Tibilsi-Ceyhan... second longest in the world) pipeline about which we've heard so much of in recent weeks in the news --- have ALL been widely reported on, and matters of GREAT FINANCIAL, POLITICAL, and MILITARY interest.
After all... aren't people saying that South Asia's energy resources are one of the primary goals of the new 'Great Power Game', being played out between the U.S. of A., Russia, China... and also India?
The London Financial Times (& the Houston Cronicle) have had pretty good coverage of these issues --- but for what I think is one of the best archives of resources, specifically relating to oil company developments globally (and a search-able resource that can pull up details about these, and other, pipeline developments) I'd recommend going to the industry publication Rigzone.
rigzone.com |
