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In een interview met Thomas Friedman, de vermaarde columnist van de New York Times, erkende de Amerikaanse president Obama onlangs impliciet de geopolitieke zegeningen van de Amerikaanse schalierevolutie. Sprekend over een op handen zijnde nucleaire deal met Iran stelde hij dat het vitale belang van de Verenigde Staten in het Midden-Oosten niet langer olie en […]
Pakistan’s Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, said Sunday that the Iran-Pakistan natural gas pipeline will provide 750 million cubic feet of gas (22.5 million cubic meters) a day when it becomes fully operational by 2020. However, the president expects 250 million cubic feet (7.5 million cubic meters) of gas supply from […]
Despite the nuclear deal, new political and strategic alliances between Iran and the West will need time to develop. Iran’s economy forced it to agree to a nuclear deal and it is eager to attract investments for its hydrocarbon industry. How may relations develop in the next decade? Anadolu News Agency from Turkey spoke about […]
The recent nuclear agreement between the P5+1 and Iran had raised great expectations about the prospects of Iran returning to the global oil and gas markets. Countries and companies from around the world are already impatiently lining up to get a share of the pie. However, Iran’s current energy supply capacities are far from adequate […]
Western observers often take the view that the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation was designed to act as a counterweight to Nato. Will it become one? Sijbren de Jong (HCSS) and Jan Wouters (Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies) do not think so. In an article for EUobserver they argue that – the recent joining of India […]
Containing Iran is in the interest of neither the US nor its allies in the region, Willem Oosterveld argues in a letter published in the Financial Times today in response to an op-ed by former US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns. If anything, Mr Oosterveld says, what is needed now is to gradually bring Iran […]
The Centre of Expertise on Resources (COE Resources) supports industry and government to effectively anticipate strategic opportunities and risks related to the sustainable supply of resources. On May 12th, COE Resources, in collaboration with with MVO (The Netherlands Oils and Fats Industry) and FNLI (the federation of Dutch Food and Grocery Industry), organized a breakfast […]
The landmark deal with Iran can possibly mark an end to the relative isolation of the country. Rich in hydrocarbon reserves, Iran is desperate to make it back to world markets. What impact will the opening up of Iran have on OPEC, Saudi Arabia, and Russia? Australia’s ABC Newsradio spoke about the matter with Sijbren […]
Iran and the P5+1 reached an agreement on a detailed nuclear accord on Tuesday that allows for the lifting of sanctions on Iran in exchange for allowing inspections at its nuclear sites. The Iranian oil and gas sector is expected to open up in the medium- to long term. Many countries that used to import […]
In July 1995, Mr Mulder was a conscript in DutchBat III — the Dutch battalion tasked by the UN with protecting the safe enclave in eastern Bosnia. They failed, and this weekend marks the 20th anniversary of the subsequent massacre, in which 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were murdered by Bosnian Serbs. Read the […]
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