There is a BRIDGE that connects humanity. It is Universal. The Red and Blue of the USA are already connected.
Do not think for a minute, that the GOP focus on Clinton's sexual indescretions were about 'immorality'; quite the contrary. Clinton put the skids on the Cheney-Bush-Rice Axis to develop the Caspian Sea fossil fuels redirection away from Russian routes. They needed the Taliban out of the way. They needed Iranian sanctions lifted. They needed Libyian sanctions lifted. They needed Saddam out of the way.
The goal: cash in on the growing China economic and industrial development. Feed the beast that will eventually rob the world.
Exerpt from the Department of Energy, 2004. Caspian Sea Region
"An additional way for Caspian region exporters to supply Asian demand would be to pipe oil and natural gas south through Iran to the Persian Gulf or southwest to Afghanistan.
The Afghanistan option, which Turkmenistan has been promoting, would entail building pipelines across war-ravaged Afghan territory to reach markets in Pakistan and possibly India. With the ouster of the Taliban in Afghanistan in December 2001, proposals to build a Trans-Afghan natural gas pipeline have emerged.
The proposed pipeline would link Turkmenistan's Dauletabad natural gas field in the southern part of the country to either Gwadar, Pakistan on the Arabian Sea or to Kandahar, Afghanistan and to India. However, in the past year India has distanced itself from this project, citing difficulties in the country's bilateral relationship with neighboring Pakistan.
In December 2002, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan signed a trilateral agreement to seek investors to finance the estimated $2.5-$3.5 billion construction cost. In July 2003, however, one of the Trans-Afghan natural gas pipeline's key supporters, the Asian Development Bank, called for additional feasibility studies, thus further delaying the project.
Development of a southern pipeline through Iran would be problematic under the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act, which imposes sanctions on non-U.S. companies investing in the Iranian oil and natural gas sectors. U.S. companies already are prohibited from conducting business with Iran under U.S law. In 1997, however, Turkmenistan and Iran completed the $190 million Korpezhe-Kurt Kui pipeline linking the two countries, thereby becoming the first (and so far, only) natural gas export pipeline from Central Asia to bypass Russia.
Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan have initiated low-volume oil "swap" deals with Iran, delivering oil in tankers to refineries in Iran's northern regions in exchange for similar volumes of crude at Iranian ports in the Persian Gulf.
During early 2004, Iran completed efforts to upgrade its domestic distribution network to allow for swap capacity to increase from roughly 50,000 bbl/d to 170,000 bbl/d. However, late 2004 price differentials between sweet and sour crude have rendered these swaps less economic than during the summer 2004, and Russian and Caspian producers have sent their oil westward to Europe instead of sending it to Iran.
Previously, Iran would take crude at either the Caspian Sea port of Neka and send it to the Tehran refinery or by train across Central Asia. It would then deliver an equivalent amount to the oil companies in the Persian Gulf from its nearby fields. December 2004 swap levels are at roughly 35,000 bbl/d, down 75% compared to levels during the summer of 2004. "
Monday, February 21, 2005
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