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Ocalan's capture spells trouble for Caspian plans

By Michael Lelyveld, Asia Times, 24 February 1999. Turkey's success in capturing the Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan could mean more trouble for its plan to pipe petroleum from the Caspian Sea. The preferred pipeline routes from the Caspian carefully skirt Kurdish strongholds where Turkey has fought to exert its control. But the pipelines will still stretch across the borders of a volatile region.

Gloomy picture overshadows oil bonanza

By Michael Lelyveld, Asia Times, 8 May 1999. A dark picture of Caspian Sea development. Poverty, pollution and corruption in the midst of oil exploration and wealth for the privileged few.

Caspian Sea oil a prize the U.S. wants to control

By Tom Hundley, The Chicago Tribune, 25 November 1999. The leaders of Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan signed an agreement to build a new 1,080-mile pipeline that could carry a million barrels of oil a day from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean. The U.S. hails the pipeline as a major foreign policy triumph because Caspian oil will not have to flow through Russia or Iran to get to the oil-hungry markets of the West.

Russia Aims At Caspian Sea Settlement

By Sergei Blagov, IPS, 29 September 2000. Russia is urging the Caspian littoral states—including Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan—to reach agreements to protect bio-resources without waiting until the Caspian Sea is divided formally among them. The Caspian, the world's largest inland sea, is a focal point of an accelerating clash of interests among Russia, its newly independent neighbours and Iran—mainly because the 700 mile-long sea contains six separate hydrocarbon basins.

Caspian pipeline skirts trouble spots

By Bill Anderson, UPI, Tuesday 27 November 2001. The grand opening of a 900-mile pipeline that has thrown open the door to the vast oilfields of the volatile Caspian Sea region. The pipeline was built in a little more than a year by the Caspian Pipeline Consortium and links the huge Tenzig field of western Kazakhstan to the seaport of Novorossiysk.

World Bank Pipeline in Georgia and Azerbaijan Illustrates Problems with Extractive Industries

From CEE Bankwatch Network, Monday 27 May 2002. The issue of the harm which extractive industry projects have created in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The Baku-Supsa pipeline was the first fast-track component of the contract of the century, involving partial development of the Chirag oil field and related facilities in the Caspian Sea.

New moves on Caucasus chessboard

By Paul Goble, Asia Times, 21 April 1999. Several events in the southern Caucasus last week may lead to fundamental changes in power relationships not only there but across a much larger portion of the world as well. And because of that, some of the players both within the region and beyond appear to be positioning themselves to respond with new moves.

A Discreet Deal in the Pipeline: Nato Mocked Those Who Claimed There was a Plan for Caspian Oil

By George Monbiot, Guardian (London), Thursday 15 February 2001. During the 1999 Balkans war, some of the critics of Nato's intervention alleged that the western powers were seeking to secure a passage for oil from the Caspian sea. The Trans-Balkan pipeline, due for approval at the end of next month, is to secure a passage for oil from the Caspian sea.

Iran, Azerbaijan face off as Caspian oil row turns nasty

DAWN, Wednesday 25 July 2001. Iran and Azerbaijan refused to back down after an Iranian warship threatened an Azeri oil research vessel in disputed waters. This casts a shadow over the multi-billion-dollar development of the Caspian Sea's oil reserves with the participation of Western companies.

Iranian Nation Determined to Protect Caspian Sea

Tehran Times, 16 May 2002. President Khatami said that the Islamic Republic of Iran is against any kind of unilateral and inflammatory measure in the Caspian Sea. Iran is willing to continue logical negotiations to determine the legal regime of the Caspian Sea fairly so that all the Caspian littoral states would be fairly provided with Caspian resources.

The empire isn'nt in Afghanistan for the oil!

By Jared Israel, The Emperor's Clothes, 22 June 2002. The Anglo-US-German assault on Afghanistan was not for oil. The United States' main pursuit in Afghanistan is part of a geo-strategic concept. The U.S. strategy of promoting Turkey as a regional Imperial proxy force, strengthening its relations with Georgia and Azerbaijan with the goal of weakening Russian influence.

Where Iran must draw the line

By Kaveh L Afrasiabi, PhD, [e-mail], Asia Times, 31 October 2002. Iran's boundaries in the Caspian Sea is a hotly contested question that has been the subject of protracted negotiation since 1992, when officials of the Caspian littoral states—Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Iran and Turkmenistan—gathered in Tehran for the first time to tackle the outstanding issues of the so-called Caspian legal regime.