All that oil and nowhere to go

A combination of East-West geopolitical rivalries and haggling among former Soviet republics is delaying the construction of a series of oil and gas pipelines that could help alleviate the world’s energy-supply concerns.

But the debate over the routes the pipelines would take has gotten bogged down in the political ambitions of the US and Russia on the one hand and Turkey on the other, according to experts and politicians who attended the mid-April annual Eurasia Media Forum here in Kazakhstan’s largest city and former capital.

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