{"id":30318,"date":"2018-01-30T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30318"},"modified":"2018-01-30T08:00:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T13:00:31","slug":"pipeline-wars-realpolitik-meets-geography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30318","title":{"rendered":"Pipeline Wars: Realpolitik meets\u00a0Geography"},"content":{"rendered":"<header id=\"masthead\" class=\"site-header\" role=\"banner\">\n<div class=\"site-header-image\">\n<div class=\"site-branding-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"site-branding\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<nav id=\"site-navigation\" class=\"main-navigation clear\" role=\"navigation\">\n<h3 class=\"menu-top-container\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2018\/01\/28\/pipeline-wars-realpolitik-meets-geography\/\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Pipeline Wars: Realpolitik meets\u00a0Geography<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/nav>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"site-content\">\n<div id=\"primary\" class=\"content-area\">\n<article id=\"post-6085\" class=\"post-6085 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-money category-politics tag-azerbaijan tag-economics tag-nordstream-2 tag-pipelines tag-politics tag-russia tag-south-stream tag-southern-gas-corridor tag-turkey tag-turkish-stream\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The headlines are ablaze this month with news from all over about new pipeline projects coming into Europe.\u00a0 Never one to miss an opportunity to do the U.S. State Department\u2019s bidding in how it presents pipeline politics,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Energy\/Natural-Gas\/Is-This-The-Worlds-Most-Critical-Pipeline.html\">Oilprice.com published a howler of a piece about the Southern Gas Corridor.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Titled, \u201cIs This the World\u2019s Most Critical Pipeline?\u201d the piece is pure marketing fluff designed to make you think that Azerbaijani gas will change the face of European gas politics.<\/p>\n<p>The beginning is the most telling, \u201cEurope wants to become less dependent on Russian gas and use more clean energy\u2026\u201d This is a lie.<\/p>\n<p>Europe doesn\u2019t want this as a continent, the leaders of the European Union who are aligned with the United States who view Russia as the enemy want to become less dependent on Russian gas.<\/p>\n<p>Most of Europe wants Russia to supply them with natural gas because it is 1) cheap and 2) plentiful.\u00a0 For geopolitical reasons the U.S. doesn\u2019t want an ascendant Russia.\u00a0 The EU technocracy agrees because a strong Russia owning more than 40% of European gas sales is a Russia that can\u2019t be destabilized through currency and proxy wars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Southern Gas Boondoggle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Southern Gas Corridor is a nearly 4000km (2500 mile) gas pipeline project to bring Caspian Sea natural gas into southern Europe.\u00a0 It is slated, when completed with all the side projects tying into it, between 60 and 120 billion cubic meters of gas annually (bcma) starting with an unknown amount from Azerbaijan in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5701 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.halseynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SGC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"603\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That number comes from an announcement in the Financial Times circa 2008.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.delegate.com\/content\/annualmeeting\/2016\/documents\/Azerbaijan-Afgan%20Isayev.pdf\">A better number for it is closer to just 16 bcma<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pipeline Wars: Realpolitik meets\u00a0Geography The headlines are ablaze this month with news from all over about new pipeline projects coming into Europe.\u00a0 Never one to miss an opportunity to do the U.S. State Department\u2019s bidding in how it presents pipeline politics,\u00a0Oilprice.com published a howler of a piece about the Southern Gas Corridor. 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