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Iran studying Europe gas export plans
Iran says it is studying various options for exports of natural gas to Europe thus again reviving an ambitious plan that had been previously shelved due to sanctions as well as technical problems.
Alireza Kameli, the managing director of the National Iranian Gas Export Company (NIGEC), was quoted by Iran’s media as saying that exporting natural gas to Europe through constructing a new pipeline is not economically beneficial.
This, he said, is due to the fact that the price of natural gas has decreased internationally and that the construction of a new pipeline has no economic justification.
Kameli said Iran is looking for several options for exporting gas to Europe. One, he added, includes using the available pipelines or constructing shortcuts to existing pipelines.
In July, Azizollah Ramazani, the NIGEC director for international affairs, was quoted by the media as saying that Iran is looking into the possibility of supplying natural gas to EU consumers through a pipeline that would pass through Southeast Europe toward the West.
Ramazani emphasized that Iran could be connected with Turkey’s Trans Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP) to export gas to Europe. “TANAP may be possible because it has also excess capacity. But we don’t have any negotiations with TANAP consortium for such a business,” he said.
“Our production capacity will increase to 1.2 billion cubic meters per day during next five years. So we have enough gas for export,” Ramazani said on the sidelines of 9th Southeast Europe Energy Dialogue.
Iran had for years pursued plans to export natural gas to Europe. A tentative scheme that was developed in cooperation with Nabucco – a consortium led by Austria’s OMV – envisaged piping Iranian natural gas from the southern energy hub of Assaluyeh to Turkey and thereon to Europe. However, Nabucco eventually abandoned Iran in 2008 after complications grew the most important of which were US-engineered sanctions against the Iranian energy sector.
A parallel plan to export Iranian gas to Europe – again through Turkey – has been pursued by Switzerland’s EGL, also known as Elektrizitaetsgesellschaft Laufenburg,
Based on the EGL scheme, the Iranian natural gas would be taken to Greece and Albania through Turkey. It would thereon flow to Italy through a pipeline under the Adriatic Sea before reaching Switzerland. However, this scheme had a fate similar to that of Nabucco.
14 Comments on "Iran studying Europe gas export plans"
Cloggie on Mon, 12th Sep 2016 3:07 am
One of the major reasons why the Syrian war was initiated was to prevent a pipeline from Iran to Bagdad and Damascus to the Meditarrainean.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-geopolitics-of-gas-and-the-syrian-crisis-syrian-opposition-armed-to-thwart-construction-of-iran-iraq-syria-gas-pipeline/5337452
It is interesting that on this rare occasion, the US and Russia have parallel interests in the non-revival of the old Syrian state.
It is also interesting that there is hardly any animosity between Turkey and Iran. Where the religeous leaders of KSA declared last week that Iranians are no muslims…
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37287434
…Erdogan is not biting and has bigger, global fish to fry and is not interested in a struggle with Iran over religeous details. Erdogan is not anti-Iran, he is (secretly) anti-West. Erdogan still wants a revival of the Ottoman empire, based on far-going cooperation with KSA and the creation of a Sunni corridor through Syria to connect the two. Once that is established, he will look further to create a sort of Islamic EU, encompassing the countries of North-Africa.
In public he even refers to the reconquest of El-Andaluz (Spain) and Palestine:
http://shoebat.com/2015/05/15/erdogan-of-turkey-just-gave-a-speech-asking-his-people-to-elect-his-party-because-he-aims-to-invade-jerusalem/
Anonymous on Mon, 12th Sep 2016 5:29 am
Doubtful that Russia would collude with the jewnighted states to prevent an Iranian pipelines. Russians, and Iranians as well, are more pragmatic and long term thinkers than that. If they were, Russians would just be amerikans with funny hats and accents. If such a pipeline were to be built, I’m certain that Russia and Iran could come to an arrangement all side could live with.
As for erdo being some covert (anti-west) trojan horse? If that were the case, he sure has a funny way of showing it. He’s done pretty much anything, and everything, his masters in tel aviv, washingdum, and London, tell him too. That fake coup, likely orchestrated with uS(cia) backing, has allowed him to purge anyone that might oppose his plans to invade Northern Syria(which btw, are also the uS’s and Tel avivs plans). Hes either the most convincing patsy ever, or maybe hes just a tool….
Pretty theory though. Turkey used to be called the sick man of Europe(I dont have to tell you), and guess what? It still is. There wont be any Ottoman empire v2.0 with Constantinople as its capital, feat. Emperor Erdo on the throne , lol.
Cloggie on Mon, 12th Sep 2016 5:50 am
Russia is for a large extent dependent on oil income and can’t afford to share that with somebody else, not even with an ally like Iran. Russia is a weak economy with a strong military.
Since Erdogan came to office he has systematically worked on dismantling the secular Ataturk legacy and replace it with Islamic conservatism (not yet fundamentalism).
There can’t be a shadow of a doubt that Erdogan secretly worked and still works together with IS with the aim to increase the sphere of Turkish influence sourthwards.
Furthermore, the coup was not fake and was quietly backed by the US. It was of all people Putin who saved Erdogan by warning him in advance that a coup was immanent. Here a Lebanes politician who claims that Erdogan sought refuge on a Russian base in Syria:
https://youtu.be/NfpyXKtbeH0
That was the only reason why Erdogan went to Moscow the other day.
Moscow and Erdogan may have diametrically opposed aims in Syria, but for Putin this was the chance to let Turkey estrange from the West and open the door for Turkey SCO membership, further isolating the West.
In October I will spend a week in “Constantinople” to get a feeling of what is going on first hand… as long as it is still possible for western tourists to do so. Won’t be surprised if Turkey will go the way of Iran after the Shah.
If you won’t hear from me in November, I am rotting away in an Ottoman jail.lol.
dissident on Mon, 12th Sep 2016 4:23 pm
@Cloggie,
Stop spreading tired NATO propaganda about Russia’s supposed dependence on oil and gas. According to the World Bank in 2013 oil and gas accounted for 13.7% of Russia’s GDP. This number obviously has not increased since the price for oil and gas has dropped by 50% since 2013. Since the dollar to ruble exchange rate has dropped by a similar amount the ruble revenues have stayed about the same since 2013 (export volumes have not changed substantially).
Russia’s consolidated budget depends 21% on oil and gas taxes and not the routinely claimed 50% (that is spun as if 50% of Russia’s GDP depends on oil and gas).
http://www.awarablogs.com/share-of-oil-and-gas-in-russias-tax-revenue-dropped-to-21/
NATO propaganda makes Russia into some sort of banana republic like Saudi Arabia, which really is a one-commodity economy.
Since Russia is going to ship vast amounts of gas to China after 2019, it makes sense for Russia to support any project that would replace its exports to the EU. This includes Iran and Qatar. All of these conspiracy theories about Russia preventing pipelines through Syria are a stupid joke. The EU never stops giving Russia a hard time about some non-existent “gas blackmail” and routinely disrupts Russian pipeline projects designed to bypass Banderastan (formerly known as Ukraine). Russia does not need stupid hater customers like the EU who are the ones actually engaged in real gas blackmail against Russia.
Cloggie on Mon, 12th Sep 2016 4:42 pm
“According to the World Bank in 2013 oil and gas accounted for 13.7% of Russia’s GDP”
…and 68% state income… since nobody pays taxes in Russia:
http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=17231
NATO propaganda? Perhaps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Russia
“As of 2012 the oil-and-gas sector accounted for 16% of the GDP, 52% of federal budget revenues and over 70% of total exports.[”
Source: also Worldbank
You seem to accept the Worldbank as not being NATO-propaganda (very benigh), so we can conclude that oil and gas constitute a majority share of the Russian government budget.
And I am not a NATO fan.
PracticalMaina on Tue, 13th Sep 2016 9:05 am
Cloggie, but that is 2012 exports, before Obama became the best friend of the Russian farmer by attempting to sanction the country into submission. They are now more than ever an agricultural powerhouse, and their climate, massive land mass, and proximity to resource rich countries than require huge food imports will keep them in the money for the foreseeable future.
shortonoil on Tue, 13th Sep 2016 11:10 am
“You seem to accept the Worldbank as not being NATO-propaganda (very benigh),”
You are becoming absolutely desperate to come up with any bulls’t you can think of. It anything the World Bank owns NATO, not the other way around?
shortonoil on Tue, 13th Sep 2016 11:16 am
Ever get the feeling that Cloggie is part of herd? He was putting up long involved post on a half dozen thread this morning.
You can type 200 words a minute, do searches on the net, and spell check them at the same time. Amazing!
Cloggie on Tue, 13th Sep 2016 11:34 am
“You are becoming absolutely desperate to come up with any bulls’t you can think of. It anything the World Bank owns NATO, not the other way around?”
I should indeed have said “western propaganda”.
“Ever get the feeling that Cloggie is part of herd? He was putting up long involved post on a half dozen thread this morning.”
Ever contemplated that I, me and myself could be paid by Putin, all three of us? You can’t be careful enough these days.
Seriously, I start the day with a cup of coffee and an iPad in a big chair and begin to react to topics, when at the same time most other posters are still “on one ear”. So for an hour or so I “dominate” and can easily write six posts in six threads.
Could you point at two 200 word posts, written by me with a time difference of 1 minute?
You can’t.
marmico on Tue, 13th Sep 2016 11:58 am
Bedford “Laughing Stock” Hill’s ETP paper, augmented by Louis (“The Quack”)Arnoux, was rejected by the new Journal started by Charlie (EROI guy) Hall and Ugo (Seneca Cliff guy) Bardi.
Bedford is on the offence. Don’t take offence, cloggie. Hill is an idiot.
Cloggie on Tue, 13th Sep 2016 12:37 pm
Shorty is on the offence since I am on the offense with the idea that we are running out of oil any time soon.
In Shorty’s view I am what Allah bots like to call “an infidel” or the Christians of centuries gone by “a heretic”.
Three years ago I thought like him (ASPO-2000/Heinberg), until that fracking circus began and my eyes were opened for the fact that with application of technology far more oil and gas could be harvested than previously thought.
Now I realize that we live on a freaking tar ball and that there is probably more combustible material in the earth’s crust than can ever be burned with the oxygen in the atmosphere.
At any rate there is enough (admittedly harder to acquire) fossil fuel left to set up a renewable energy base in say 50 years, which is what we should do.
It is not difficult to understand why Shorty is so angry, because apparently he broadcasted his ASPO-2000 derived message in a book and God knows perhaps with Larry King and Oprah Winfrey on the telly. So for him it is much more costly to retract than for me.
On a positive note, Richard Heinberg has not been lynched either (not that he should!), so I would advise Shorty to take it easy, write yet another 57p pdf on fracking and UCG etc. and sell it to anybody who is interested.
Boat on Tue, 13th Sep 2016 4:17 pm
The wind turbines
Once the Sandbank wind farm is completed, 72 wind turbines spread out over an area of 60 square kilometres will be using their vast rotor blades to turn the powerful North Sea wind into green energy.
Each of these units, built by Siemens, stand at a maximum overall height of 150 metres above the water surface and deliver an output of 4 megawatts. The rotors sweep over an area equal to almost two football fields and produce a total of 1.4 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year.
The nacelles themselves are about the size of a bus and house the turbine’s main elements, such as the gear box, generator and the automatic controller which ensures the rotor is positioned at the correct angle in relation to the wind.
https://corporate.vattenfall.com/about-energy/renewable-energy-sources/wind_power/wind-power-at-vattenfall/sandbank-offshore-wind-farm/technology-and-components/
Boat on Tue, 13th Sep 2016 4:33 pm
August 2016: GE reached the financial close for the 396 MW Merkur offshore wind farm project, located in the North Sea, which will generate enough power for 500,000 homes. GE will supply 66 Haliade 150-6MW, and when completed, it will become one of Germany’s largest wind farms.
2,4 and 6 MW turbines are the norm. In a year or 2 8 MW will be going up.
dissident on Tue, 13th Sep 2016 5:26 pm
https://www.rt.com/business/359194-russia-gas-divorce-europe/