Azerbaijani Gas in a Changing Global Context From the Western perspective, Azerbaijan is the geographic gateway to the Caspian Sea region’s plentiful oil and gas resources. In the post-Cold War period, Western political and commercial actors have sought to build export routes for Caspian hydrocarbons that avoid both Russian and Iranian territory...

Turkmenistan Warms Up to Caspian Delimitation Deal with Baku The global economic crisis has put Ashgabat in a difficult position. In April 2009, faced with falling European gas demand, Turkmenistan’s top gas customer, Gazprom, halted purchases of Turkmen gas, leading to the unexpected explosion of the Central Asia Center-4 pipeline...