ENERGY - Nabucco seeks shorter way to bid for Azerbaijani natural gas. LONDON - Reuters Only weeks before Azerbaijan’s expected crucial decision on the buyer of the Shah Deniz 2 field gas, Nabucco, which has lost blood due to recent withdrawals, significantly reduces its project length and costs A number of projects joined by Western energy firms are racing to buy Azerbaijan’s natural gas. The project is vital for Europe’s energy diversity as the continent is largely dependent on Russian resources. AFP photo The Nabucco Consortium has submitted a proposal for the smaller Nabucco West version of its pipeline project to the Shah Deniz 2 group that plans to ship 16 billion cubic meters (bcm) of Azeri natural gas to Europe, the Nabucco group has said.
The Nabucco West option would mean that the pipeline only begins at Turkey’s western border, significantly reducing its length and cost, but leaving the transport through Turkey to another pipeline or existing infrastructure. Italy’s Enel has also voiced its interested in joining TAP. The # geo Daily. A new study shows. Japan Could Tap Thermal Springs to Replace Nuclear Power With Geothermal Energy.
A lot has happened since the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
In the 15 months since the power plant was damaged by a double-whammy of an earthquake and a tsunami, the nuclear state has been described as worse than Chernobyl and the country has shut down all its reactors. Now that the country is nuclear-free, the problem is that without this power source, their emissions are set to rise as they become more reliant on fossil fuels. However, there may be another solution – Japan’s thermal springs. Located in the infamous Ring of Fire, Japan is extremely volcanic and, as a result, has a number of thermal springs. It has been estimated that the country’s springs could generate up to 23.47 GW of geothermal energy; however, many are located in national parks and could be hard to exploit.
“It [Japan] is currently only generating 0.5 Gigawatts of power via geothermal power, but it has the potential for up to 23.5 Gigawatts. Speaking to RT.com, Dr. “It’s costing them very dearly. The Geopolitics of Oil Pipelines in Central Asia. James Fishelson graduated from Yale University with degrees in Chemistry and International Affairs in 2007.
He performed research for this thesis while studying abroad in Almaty and traveling in Kyrgyzstan. Kazakhstan has received much press recently as a result of the success of the comic film Borat. However, that movie got everything wrong in its depiction of Kazakhstan, with the exception of two things. The first is that the country is in a regional conflict with Uzbekistan. The second is the prevalence of prostitutes, which are everywhere in Kazakhstan. Elsewhere in Central Asia, Turkmenistan, a relatively small and isolated country, has been largely ignored by the American media but possesses what are believed to be the fourth-largest natural gas reserves in the world.[3] Considering the current violence in the Middle East and rising energy costs, we should begin to pay the sort of serious attention we have paid to Borat to the production of Central Asian oil and gas. China's Plans. Argentine move to seize YPF scuppers Sinopec deal.