Transatlantic Topics | Energy Security

• The Future of Nuclear Energy in the US and EU
  On Tuesday, May 31, CTR hosted a conference on "After Fukushima: The Future of Nuclear Energy in the United States and Europe." Daniel Poneman, deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy; João Vale de Almeida, EU ambassador to the United States; François Delattre, French ambassador to the United States; and Klaus Scharioth, German ambassador to the United States, gave keynote speeches. Click here for more.
  
  
• Natural Gas and Energy Security in the Visegrad and the Baltic States
  CTR's David Koranyi and Andris Spruds analyzehere the dynamics of the changing global natural gas scene and it's impact on energy security in the Visegrad and the Baltic States.
  
  
• Shale Gas or Gazprom at the Edge of Doom?
  Prof. Alan Riley gave a presentation at CTR on April 1.

• Energy Security: Nabucco and South Stream
  Vladimir Socor offers updates on these two major projects here and here.

• Nuclear future
  The U.S. is shortchanging itself on a clean source of energy writes CTR's Kurt Volker in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette here.
  
  
• Russian Gas, Ukrainian Pipelines and European Security
  Kristen Westphal offers analysis and recommendations here.
  
  

• Russian Gas and Oil Projects on Hold in Bulgaria
  Commentary by Vladimir Socor here.
  
  
• Moscow Targeting Adriatic Energy Transportation Lifeline to Central Europe
  Commentary by Vladimir Socor here.
  
  
• Strategic Implications of the Central Asia-China Gas Pipeline
  Commentary by Vladimir Socor here and here.
  
  
• Three Central Asian Countries Inaugurate Gas Export Pipeline to China
  Commentary by Vladimir Socor here.
  
  
• Energy as a Lever of New Power
  Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs Maria van der Hoeven spoke at CTR on September 24th here. 
  
  
• Can the EU solve the Southern Gas Corridor puzzle?
  Read the EurActive summary here. 
  
  
• Energy Security
  Sebastian Schäffer and Dominik Tolksdorf offer Europe ways out of the Gas Trap here.
  
  
• After the Gas Conflict: Economic consequences for Russia, Ukraine, and Germany, by Roland Götz
  
  
• Transforming Wider Europe:  Ten Lessons from Transatlantic-Nordic-Baltic Cooperation, by Daniel S. Hamilton.
  
  
• EU's Energy Policy - A Quest for Relevance by Vladimir Socor
  
  
• The Nabucco Pipeline: A Sober Assessment
  CEPA’s F. Wallace Hays tells the story here.
  
  
• Nabucco Gas Pipeline Project is Back on Track
  Commentary by Vladimir Socor - click here.
  
  
• Should NATO play a major role in energy security?
  For analyses, click here.
  
  
• Russia Surging Farther Ahead in Race for Central Asian Gas
  Commentary by Vladimir Socor - click here.
  
  
• Russia Poised to Lead an Evolving Cartel of Gas-Exporting Countries
  Commentary by Vladimir Socor - click here.
  
  
• Hungary's Prime Minister in Moscow Steps Back From the Brink on Nabucco
  Commentary by Vladimir Socor - click here.
  
  
• Gas Suppliers' Cartel Ideas: Not "OPEC," but Cartel All the Same
  Commentary by Vladimir Socor - click here.
  
  
• Toward a Russia-led Gas Cartel?
  Commentary by Vladimir Socor - click here.
  
  
• Energy Security as a Euro-Atlantic Concern by Vladimir Socor
  
  
• European Union's energy paper: A muffled call to a slow wakeup by Vladimir Socor
  
  
• Gazprom broadens, deepens inroads into European Union's internal markets, transport system by Vladimir Socor
  
  
• Agreement Signed on Trans-Balkan Oil Pipeline, Russian Rival to Trans-Caspian Project
  Commentary by Vladimir Socor - click here.
  
  
• First Russian-controlled Pipeline on European Union Territory Rears its Head
  Commentary by Vladimir Socor - click here.
  
  
• Gazprom Eyeing Ukranian Gas Distribution Networks
  Commentary by Vladimir Socor - click here.
  
  
• Russia Says It May Double Oil Exports Through The Baltic Sea
  Commentary by Vladimir Socor - click here.
  
  
• Friedemann Mueller of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs argues that the changing world energy market demands new European approaches here.
  
  
• Ukraine Bars Russian-Proposed Alienation of its Gas Transport System
  Commentary by Vladimir Socor - click here.
  
  
• Growing Risks to Baltic Sea Safety from Russian Energy Projects
  Commentary by Vladimir Socor - click here.
  
  
• Russia-Belarus Standoff May Begin Affecting Oil Supplies to Europe
  Commentary by Vladimir Socor - click here.
  
  
• New Complications in Ukraine's Energy Situation
  Commentary by Vladimir Socor - click here.
  
  
• ODESSA-BRODY-POLAND Oil Transport Project Shelved Indefinitely
  Commentary by Vladimir Socor - click here.
  
  
• Twelve Months: The Short Life of Comfortable Assumptions about Russia's Energy Policy in 2006
  Commentary by Vladimir Socor - click here.
  
  
• What Role for the Black Sea Region in the European Union's Energy Strategy (Part 1) by Vladimir Socor
  
  
• Interest Rebounds in the Trans-Caspian Pipeline for Turkmen Gas by Vladimir Socor
  
  
• Lugar Urges Active Role for NATO in Energy Security Policy
  Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) is calling on NATO to protect allied countries' energy security. Click here.
  
  
• Can Biofuels Cure Europe's Oil Dependency?
  Article by Euractiv - click here.
  
  

• Energy Security in Europe
  EU-Russian energy links are intensifying, read, among others, comments by Vladimir Socor here, courtesy of Jamestown Foundation. How is China affecting Europe's energy picture? Click here for an analysis.
  

• "Green Paper" on EU Energy Policy
  On March 8, 2006 the European Commission released a "Green Paper" on a common EU energy policy to achieve "sustainable, competitive and secure" energy supplies in the EU. (Click here for a link to the Green Paper).