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The Energy Daily Editorial Team produces Energy Daily's coverage of the global energy industry. We report on oil and gas, power grids and utilities, energy markets and policy, and the renewables and storage reshaping how the world is powered. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Energy Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

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Analysis: Central Asian energy in 2008

Washington (UPI) Dec 31, 2008 - The noted Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes once wrote, Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States. Substitute Central Asia for Mexico and Russia for the United States, and one begins to have an idea of the energy exports problems facing Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. For the three easternmost former Soviet Stan republics, 2008 has been a year of stress and possibility. Given their geographic isolation, despite their independence, all three nations have been forced to acknowledge the reality of Russia's ongoing regional influence, despite the collapse of communism in 1991. Russia's state-owned monopoly Gazprom remains the largest player in the region's energy market, as foreign investors largely remain fixated farther west on the immense Caspian hydrocarbon reserves of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.

Dec 31, 2008
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Gazprom Continues Talks With Ukraine Despite Harsh Rhetoric

Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 30, 2008 - Gazprom is continuing to hold gas talks with Ukraine and hopes to reach an agreement by the yearend to avoid supplies cuts over Kiev's outstanding debts, a deputy CEO at the Russian gas giant said Monday. Three days remain before the New Year, and of course no one would like the sad events of the past to be repeated. But if we are doing everything required on our side to avoid that, we unfortunately are not seeing the same enthusiasm from the Ukrainian side, although we have not lost hope, Alexander Medvedev told the Vesti TV channel.

Dec 30, 2008
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Analysis: 2008 Caspian energy production

Washington (UPI) Dec 29, 2008 - For the five petro-states ringing the Caspian, 2008 can best be summed up by the opening line of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities -- It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Three of these are the former Soviet republics of Russia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. Iran, subject to nearly three decades of U.S.-led sanctions, has longstanding problems as a result that have stymied foreign investment there, while Turkmenistan's fiscal bonanza from its vast natural gas reserves still lies largely in the future. It is there in the trio of former Soviet republics that the fiscal impact of the drop in oil prices and the global economic recession are most pronounced.

Dec 29, 2008