http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/columnists/article1844551.ece?openComment=true
[quote]Which brings us to Lord Browne, who also thought there was money to be made in Russian oil. … – or not.
t seems that TNK-BP is in violation of its licence to develop the Kovykta field, …“If they are told to sell, they will sell.”
As did Royal Dutch Shell, …
Control of 50% of oil and, in effect, all gas production now resides with the state.
Worse still, Russia has successfully gained control of the pipeline networks that deliver fuel to the West. [/quote]
The following comment of mine has not passed moderators at times online and hasn’t been published.
Let me summarize what the article says:
First, Russia is not buyin’ at the market price, since it wants to buy cheap, as in case of BP’s assets, than in Mafia style. As if there are buyers that want to pay expensive price. Western looters privatized the economies of Central and Eastern European countries for peanuts, and millions of people became unemployed over night . Second, Russia doesn’t want to maximize profits, as could be seen she coordinated with OPEC to keep the prices of her products hight, as if there are sellers that want to sell their goods cheap.
Russia managed to achieve this since she learned technical skills from West, as if she is technologically backward and didn’t have even space technology and hasn’t already developed oil and gas infrastructure on her own decades ago.
Russia also dared not to sell entirely exploitation of its crude oil to the West, but only 50% of it, while retaining all of the gas, so the West rightfully refuses to sell even a bits of its gas retail network to Russia, in exchange for Russia allowing the West to buy similar bits of their gas exploitation rights, as Putin proposes.
It is assumed, but not mentioned, that the strategy of funding “color revolutions” aiming at Russia were not efficient as planned and West is busy in killing millions in Iraq and in preparation to nuke Iran.
To settle this “problem”, the author proposes the consumers of the West to pay dearly for their gas, allowing by their overpriced payments the West to built gas network directly from Australia. Otherwise, the Russia will use the profits to keep the Army up that will prevent [url=http://www.treemedia.com/cfrlibrary/library/geopolitics/brzezinski.html
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What else to say, but, go, Tzar Vladimir, go!
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