Forskningsprogram
Russian and Caspian Energy Developments
Russisk og kaspisk energi er en kilde til både muligheter og risiko for politisk virksomhet og for forretningsfolk verden over, ikke minst i Norge, som både er Russlands nabo og en nøkkelspiller i olje- og gassindustrien.
Forskningsprogrammet (RUSSCASP), har som mål å øke forståelsen av framtidsutsiktene for tre områder som er strategisk viktige for Norge:
1) Russland og det kaspiske område som arena for utenlandske energiselskaper,
2) Drivkrefter og vilkår for russisk og kaspisk enegieksport og
3) Energiutvikling i nordområdene.
Deltakere
Nye publikasjoner
Rosneft’s offshore partnerships: the re-opening of the Russian petroleum frontier?
During an intense period of only 14 months, from June 2010 to August 2011, six major cooperation agreements between oil companies were announced in Russia. Almost all of these partnerships involved offshore projects, with an international oil company as one of the partners and Rosneft as the other. The agreements were concentrated along Russia's Arctic petroleum frontier, and the three that survived the longest involved oil or gas extraction in the Arctic. This article analyses and compares the contents and contexts of the agreements, to ascertain what they have to tell about access for international companies to Russia's offshore petroleum resources and the influence of competing Russian political actors over the country's petroleum sector. The article argues that the new partnerships did represent an intention to open up the Russian continental shelf, and that the agreements were driven and shaped by a series of needs: to secure foreign capital and competence, to reduce exploration risk, to lobby for a better tax framework, to show the government that necessary action was being taken to launch exploration activities, to improve Rosneft's image abroad, and either to avert or prepare for future privatisation of state companies such as Rosneft.
Natural Gas and CO2 Price Variation: Impact on the Relative Cost-Efficiency of LNG and Pipelines
Space and Timing: Why was the Barents Sea Delimitation Dispute Resolved in 2010?
Pricing Pain: Social Discontent and Political Willpower in Russia's Gas Sector
Kooperation statt Konfrontation: Štokman, Jamal und Russlands Energiepolitik in der Arktis
A limited toolbox: Explaining the constraints on Russia’s foreign energy policy
Et blikk på Sjtokmanprosjektets blindsone: fransk-russiske relasjoner
Challenges to Russia's post-Rao UES energy paradigm: a window of opportunity for sustainable market development
Russia's Encounter with Globalization: Actors, Processes and Critical Moments
The chapters of this book analyse an increasingly important dimension of Russian politics, namely responses to globalization. How do Russia’s policy actors understand and seek to meet the political challenges of the 21st century? Emphasis is placed on understanding how Russian domestic politics shape this international engagement. Thematically, the focus is on Russia’s external engagement with areas of policy relating broadly to globalization, namely energy, climate, health, direct foreign investment, finance, and international terrorism.
Reducing Energy Subsidies in China, India and Russia: Dilemmas for Decision Makers
The South Stream versus Nabucco Pipeline Race: Geopolitical and Economic (Ir)rationales and Political Stakes in Mega-projects
The Siberian Curse: A Blessing in Disguise for Renewable Energy?
Subsidies for fossil fuels and climate change: a comparative perspective
Strategic resources, strategic players: The role of national versus international oil companies in post-Soviet Eurasia
The Caspian Sea Region towards 2025
The Caspian Sea and the lands around it are emerging again as a focus region in global affairs. With security of energy supply high on the international agenda, and with fears of resource shortages re-surfacing, the countries of the Caspian region are stepping onto the global stage, claiming for themselves new roles as providers of resources to the world. However, the new-found strength and self-confidence of the rulers of these countries are built on uncertain ground. How will a temporary – or longer-term – global recession affect these recently independent countries? How will climate change influence them – and will global climate policy alter the value of their massive hydrocarbon reserves? In some of these countries, there have been domestic armed conflicts or conflicts with neighbouring states – could hostilities erupt again? And what about the major powers in the neighbourhood? Who will gain influence, and who will lose – or will geopolitical games simply serve to destabilize matters? In three scenarios for the Caspian Sea region in 2025 this book tries to suggest possible futures for the countries around the Caspian Sea. The futures are shaped in a complex interplay with global events, with other powers and with a range of forces within the region itself. The main forces shaping the region will be the market for natural resources and their impact on regional economies, political and cultural forces of change within the region and each of the countries, as well as the dominance and influence of great powers.
The state oil company SOCAR: A microcosm of Azerbaijani development?
Introduction. The Resource Curse and Authoritarianism in the Caspian Petro-States