War In Georgia: The Oil Angle

Power Line ^ | 8/10/2008 | staff

[kellynla]

News reports indicate that Russia may have tried to bomb the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, which runs through Georgia. If so, the bombs missed, and flow of oil through the pipeline was not interrupted. The BTC pipeline runs from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean coast of Turkey; note Russia to the north and Iran to the south:

[kellynla]

[oceanagirl]

Actually, the PKK bombed the BTC pipeline in Turkey in the middle of last week, and nothing is going through it yet.

Twelve thousand barrels of oil were spilled, and the pressure in the pipeline has been lost all the way back to Baku.

There is also a pipeline, for oil or gas I don’t recall, that runs from Azerbaijan to Poti on the Black Sea. Poti, as many of you know, has been shelled. The docks are heavily damaged.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[gusopol3]

thanks, best map I’ve seen.

[BIGLOOK]

So....this is about controlling the gas and oil pipeline afterall. All about money.

[BOBTHENAILER]

That natural gas pipeline has now been built immediately adjacent to the BTC oil pipeline and is called the South Caucasus Pipeline. It has a capacity of 16 billion cubic meters per year. Plans are now being laid to connect Turkmenist

You might recall Putin's discussion about a year or so ago, with IRAN, about forming an OPEC for natural gas? Well lookie here above. The Euros better get real serious about helping Georgia, with us, or on of the next winters is going to be either REALLY COLD or REALLY EXPENSIVE.

I've seen many an uninformed FReeper on other threads saying we ain't got a dog in this fight. Jaysooos, what friggin' insanity is that.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest. Back to $4 a gallon gas, among other things:

The Pipeline War: Russian bear goes for West’s jugular
mailonline.com | 8/10/08 | Svetlana Skarbo and Jonathan Petre
Posted on 08/09/2008 5:24:46 PM PDT by melt
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059221/posts

War In Georgia: The Oil Angle
Power Line | 8/10/2008 | staff
Posted on 08/10/2008 1:51:01 PM PDT by kellynla
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2059569/posts

-also thanks for-

Taunting the Bear ( Regarding the War over South Ossetia )
New York Times | August 9, 2008 | James Traub
Posted on 08/09/2008 9:24:37 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059083/posts

Georgian Pres. Saakashvili on BBC (video)
“We will never give up our freedom”
BBC | Aug. 9, 2008
Posted on 08/10/2008 10:16:23 AM PDT by nuconvert
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059481/posts

Russians Push Past Separatist Area to Assault Central Georgia
(regime change Russian turn)
ny times | 8/10/08 | Andrew E. Kramer, Anne Barnard
Posted on 08/10/2008 7:43:34 PM PDT by Flavius
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059705/posts

Georgia Retreats, Pleads for Truce; U.S. Condemns Russian Onslaught
Washington Post | Monday, August 11, 2008; Page A01 | Peter Finn
Posted on 08/10/2008 10:13:43 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059753/posts

BBC: US warning to Russia over Georgia
( Cheney phones Mikhail Saakashvili)
BBC | Monday, 11 August 2008 05:27 UK 04:27 GMT | BBC Staff
Posted on 08/10/2008 10:25:54 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059760/posts

[SunkenCiv]

This war is a continuation of the Russian war on Chechnya.

Iran, Algeria to discuss OPEC-style gas group: report
(Gas Exporting Countries Forum)
Reuters | Aug 10, 2008 | Reporting by Zahra Hosseinian, writing by Simon Webb
Posted on 08/10/2008 10:52:34 AM PDT by decimon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059494/posts

[BOBTHENAILER]

Thanks for the ping to this SC.

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure.