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Belarus: Oil, Gas, Transit Pipelines and Russian Foreign Energy Policy

Blue Ibex Ltd.
January 1, 2006
56 Pages - SKU: GMBP1259480

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Countries covered: Russia, Belarus

Belarus: Oil, Gas, Transit Pipelines and Russian Foreign Energy Policy

Belarus relies on Russia for about 85% of its total energy needs, while Russia needs Belarus’ oil and gas pipelines to export its supplies to Western Europe. How will energy exports from Russia and Belarus’ transit capabilities impact Western Europe if this interdependent relationship ends, either through political changes in Belarus or if Russia ends its energy subsidies to Belarus? This report looks at transit, infrastructure and investment issues and analyzes both the state of the current infrastructure, as well as the possibilities this transit opens to Western investors, particularly as the Yamal Pipeline nears completion. In addition, it looks at the current conflict between Belarus and Russian investors for control of the country’s gas transit system and oil refineries. This series of reports establishes for the first time the confluence of Russian foreign policy with the acquisition of foreign energy assets by Russian entities. Nine specific country profiles focus on the oil, gas, electricity and nuclear power industries. Each report written by an author of international standing, explains how Russian foreign energy downstream mergers and acquisitions are transpiring to consolidate the new Russian empire.

Margarita M. Balmaceda is Associate Professor at the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, New Jersey, and an Associate of Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. She received a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University (1996), and Post-Doctoral training at Harvard University. She has published widely on Russian, post-Soviet and East European energy and foreign policies.

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