I'm in the middle of (moving) houses so only a short post on a few things that have caught my attention recently. And yes, we're back on a favourite topic: East Asian energy politics.
This is already a bit older but hopefully still interesting. Japan Focus published an article on Japan, Iran and oil at the end of August: The Battle of Azadegan: Japan, Oil and Independence by Michael Penn. In light of a change in power in Iran before the summer, the ongoing nuclear negotiations and trouble arising from that it will be interesting to see how the countries dependent on Iranian oil will react to this situation (obviously not only Japan, but also China for instance).
Meanwhile, negotiations were held last month between China and Japan about the East China Sea gasfields. Sean has been following this much closer than I have lately. The negotiations apparently didn't bring any other result than to meet again. Obviously it would make sense to cooperate but a lot probably needs to happen before these two countries will do that on such a sensitive issue.
New are reports about Japanese companies having won rights to develop oil fields in Libya. New investment in a politically unstable country....?
The most recent article comes from the Jamestown Foundation. They talk about how new environmental concerns have jeopardized the progress (uhm, what progress?) of negotiations on the Siberian Pacific oil pipeline. This pipeline has been debated for years now and decisions keep switching back and forth to the Nakhodka (Japanese) option and the Daqing (Chinese) option... Japan would benefit from this pipeline as a way of diversification within its range of oil suppliers. The same obviously goes for China. The last sentence in the article is perhaps most telling:
And lastly, a link to a picture that I found quite entertaining. This is from The Korea Times but somehow I don't think this is how you want to be living, and so this is not the image you should be sending out when talking about saving energy and energy efficiency: Using candles in an effort to promote energy saving.
This is already a bit older but hopefully still interesting. Japan Focus published an article on Japan, Iran and oil at the end of August: The Battle of Azadegan: Japan, Oil and Independence by Michael Penn. In light of a change in power in Iran before the summer, the ongoing nuclear negotiations and trouble arising from that it will be interesting to see how the countries dependent on Iranian oil will react to this situation (obviously not only Japan, but also China for instance).
Meanwhile, negotiations were held last month between China and Japan about the East China Sea gasfields. Sean has been following this much closer than I have lately. The negotiations apparently didn't bring any other result than to meet again. Obviously it would make sense to cooperate but a lot probably needs to happen before these two countries will do that on such a sensitive issue.
New are reports about Japanese companies having won rights to develop oil fields in Libya. New investment in a politically unstable country....?
The most recent article comes from the Jamestown Foundation. They talk about how new environmental concerns have jeopardized the progress (uhm, what progress?) of negotiations on the Siberian Pacific oil pipeline. This pipeline has been debated for years now and decisions keep switching back and forth to the Nakhodka (Japanese) option and the Daqing (Chinese) option... Japan would benefit from this pipeline as a way of diversification within its range of oil suppliers. The same obviously goes for China. The last sentence in the article is perhaps most telling:
The rejection of the planned route for a Japan-bound pipeline on environmental grounds may be a convenient pretext to switch to a China-bound pipeline.
And lastly, a link to a picture that I found quite entertaining. This is from The Korea Times but somehow I don't think this is how you want to be living, and so this is not the image you should be sending out when talking about saving energy and energy efficiency: Using candles in an effort to promote energy saving.
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