Russian and Caspian energy developments and their implications for Norway and Norwegian actors (RUSSCASP)
RUSSCASP aims to examine driving forces shaping Russian and Caspian energy exports, energy developments in the High North and the potential role of foreign energy companies in these regions.Participants
Jakub M. Godzimirski
Helge Blakkisrud
Elana Wilson Rowe
Heidi Kjærnet
Indra Overland
Russian and Caspian energy is a source of opportunity and risk for policy makers and businesspeople across the globe, not least in Norway, both a neighbour to Russia and a key player in the same industry – oil and gas. The research programme, Russian and Caspian Energy Developments (RUSSCASP), aims to expand understandings of the long-term outlook for three issue clusters of strategic relevance for Norway: 1) Russia and the Caspian region as arenas for foreign energy companies; 2) Driving forces and conditions for Russian and Caspian energy exports; and 3) Energy developments in the High North.
Funding
The Research Council of Norway.
Publications
- Kjærnet, Heidi , Indra Overland [ed.] (2009). Russian Renewable Energy. The Potential for International Cooperation.. Aldershot, Ashgate. 198 pages. This book provides a balanced analysis of Russia's understudied strengths in the renewable energy sector.
- Overland, Indra , Heidi Kjærnet, Andrea Kendall-Taylor [ed.] (2010). Caspian Energy Politics: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. Abingdon, Routledge. 208 pages. This book analyses the role of oil and gas in the development of the three main petroleum exporters in the Caspian region - Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan - and how energy resources influence interactions with semi-authoritarian Russia and China.
- Kjærnet, Heidi (2010). The State Oil Company SOCAR: A Microcosm of Azerbaijani Development?. Caucasus Analytical Digest, No 16, April 2010, pp. 5-8, 26. April
- Godzimirski, Jakub M.
(2008). Putin and post-Soviet identity: Building Blocs and Buzz Words,
in Problems of Post-Communism, vol. 55, no. 5
.New York, M. E. Sharpe.p. 14-26.Putin carefully constructed an official identity from key elements of Russia's history, including Soviet-era elements that would resonate with the Russian population. [url] - Kjærnet, Heidi , Indra Overland
(2008). The Trajectory of Reform in Turkmenistan: Implications for Foreign Oil Companies,
OGEL – Oil, Gas and Energy Law, vol. 6, no. 3
.Voorburg,OGEL - Global Energy Law & Regulation Portal.p. . [url] - Wilson Rowe, Elana (2008). Regional Influence in Oil and Gas Development: A Case Study of Sakhalin. Russian Analytical Digest no. 33, 22. January
- Overland, Indra (2008). Shtokman and Russia’s Arctic Petroleum Frontier. Russian Analytical Digest no. 33, 22. January
- Kjærnet, Heidi , Indra Overland
(2008). Doing business in Uzbekistan,
OGEL – Oil, Gas and Energy Law, vol. 6, no. 3.
.Voorburg,OGEL - Global Energy Law & Regulation Portal .This paper provides a short but comprehensive survey of different aspects of doing business in Uzbekistan. [url] - Overland, Indra ( 2008). The Dynamics of Energy in the Eurasian Context. bokanmeldelse, Nordisk Østforum, vol 22, nr. 1, s. 117-119, 1. March
- Overland, Indra
(2008). Shtokman and Russia's Arctic Petroleum Frontier,
in Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines and Hans-Henning Schröder (eds) Russia's Energy Sector between Politics and Business
.Bremen,Forschungsstelle Osteuropa an der Universität Bremen.p. 45-49.This paper discuss the development of the Shtokman project and it's implications for Russian–Norwegian relations in the north. [url] - Wilson Rowe, Elana
(2008). Regional Influence in Oil and Gas Development: A Case Study of Sakhalin,
in Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines and Hans-Henning Schröder (eds): Russia's Energy Sector between Politics and Business
.Bremen,Forschungsstelle Osteuropa an der Universität Bremen.p. 56-59.The off shore oil and gas reserves off Sakhalin Island in Russia’s Far East are one of Russia’s more promising locations for new field development.This article examines ways in which regional administrations can and do influence the process of off shore oil and gas development in the Russian federation through a case study of the Sakhalin Oblast Administration. [url] - Kjærnet, Heidi
(2010). Displacement in a Booming Economy: IDPs in Azerbaijan,
in Overland, Indra , Heidi Kjærnet, Andrea Kendall-Taylor [eds.] Caspian Energy Politics: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan
.Abingdon,Routledge.p. 60-77. [url] - Kjærnet, Heidi
(2010). Azerbaijani–Russian Relations and the Economization of Foreign Policy,
in Overland, Indra , Heidi Kjærnet, Andrea Kendall-Taylor [eds.] Caspian Energy Politics: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan
.Abingdon,Routledge.p. 150-161. [url] - Torjesen, Stina , Indra Overland, Heidi Kjærnet
(2010). China and Russia: Partners or Firewalls for the Caspian Petro-States?,
in Overland, Indra , Heidi Kjærnet, Andrea Kendall-Taylor [eds.] Caspian Energy Politics: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan
. Abingdon,Routledge.p. 93-100. [url] - Overland, Indra , Heidi Kjærnet, Andrea Kendall-Taylor
(2010). The Resource Curse and Authoritarianism in the Caspian Petro-States ,
in Overland, Indra , Heidi Kjærnet, Andrea Kendall-Taylor [eds.] Caspian Energy Politics: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan
.Abingdon,Routledge.p. 1-12. [url] - Overland, Indra , Heidi Kjærnet, Andrea Kendall-Taylor
(2010). The Logic of Authoritarianism in the Caspian Petro-States,
in Overland, Indra , Heidi Kjærnet, Andrea Kendall-Taylor [eds.] Caspian Energy Politics: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.
.Abingdon,Routledge.p. 178-184. [url] - Overland, Indra
(2009). Natural Gas and Russia-Turkmenistan Relations,
In Russian Analytical Digest, no 56 (Special Issue: Russia's Energy Relations to Its Caspian Neighbors )
.p. 9-13. [url] - Kjærnet, Heidi
(2009). The Energy Dimension of Azerbaijani-Russian Relations: Maneuvering for Nagorno-Karabakh,
In Russian Analytical Digest, no 56 (Special Issue: Russia's Energy Relations to Its Caspian Neighbors )
.p. 2-5. [url] - Torjesen, Stina
(2009). Russia and Kazakhstan: A Special Relationship ,
In Russian Analytical Digest, no 56 (Special Issue: Russia's Energy Relations to Its Caspian Neighbors )
.p. 6-8. [url] - Godzimirski, Jakub M.
(2009). The Northern Dimension of the Russian Gas Strategy,
In Russian Analytical Digest, no 58, April 2009
.p. 2-4. [url] - Wilson Rowe, Elana , Arild Moe
(2009). Northern Offshore Oil and Gas Resources: Policy challenges and Approaches,
i Wilson Rowe, Elana [red], Russia and the North
.Ottawa,University of Ottawa Press.p. 107-127. [url] - Wilson Rowe, Elana
(2009). Who is to Blame? Agency, Causality, Responsibility and the Role of Experts in Russian Framings of Global Climate Change,
in Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 61, no. 4
. London, Routledge.p. 593-619.This article analyses the politics of Russian climate change by pinpointing how global warming has been framed over a seven year period in a government-owned, leading daily newspaper, Rossiiskaya Gazeta, and how climate experts have intervened in such framings. [url] - Overland, Indra , Kyrre Brækhus
(2009). Chinese Perspectives on Russian Oil and Gas,
In Jeronim Perovic, Robert Orttung and Andreas Wenger (eds), Russian Energy Power and Foreign Relations
.London,Routledge.p. 201-221. [url] - Torjesen, Stina , Indra Overland, Morten Anker, Pavel K. Baev, Bjørn Brunstad (2010). The Caspian Sea Region towards 2025. , Eburon. 156 pages. In three scenarios for the Caspian Sea region in 2025 this book tries to suggest possible futures for the countries around the Caspian Sea.
- Kjærnet, Heidi
(2010). At Arm's Length? Applied Social Science and its Sponsors,
Journal of Academic Ethics, vol. 8, 1-9
.Springer.The article deals with trust in applied social science research in the light of applied researchers’ increased dependence on project funding. [url] - Kjærnet, Heidi
(2012). National oil companies and the state,
in A. Heinrich, and H. Pleines (eds): Challenges of the Caspian Resource Boom: Domestic Elites and Policy-making.
.Palgrave Macmillan.p. 191-204.This chapter surveys the national oil companies of three post-Soviet Caspian states – Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan – with a focus on the management strategies the governments have for their national oil companies. [url] - Overland, Indra , Jakub M. Godzimirski, Lars Petter Lunden, Daniel Fjærtoft (2013). Rosneft's offshore partnerships: the re-opening of the Russian petroleum frontier?, .Cambridge University Press.p. 140-153.This article analyses and compares the contents and contexts of major cooperation agreements between the Russian and state owned Rosneft and international companies. The goal is to ascertain what the agreements have to tell about access for international companies to Russia's offshore petroleum resources and the influence of competing Russian political actors over the country's petroleum sector. [url]
- Kjærnet, Heidi
(2010). Strategic Resources, Strategic Players: The Role of National versus International Oil Companies in Post-Soviet Eurasia,
i Roger E. Kanet og Maria Raquel Freire (red.), Key Players and Regional Dynamics in Eurasia. The Return of the 'Great Game'
.Palgrave Macmillan.p. 271-289.This chapter provides an account of the policy choices Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Russia have made with regard to balancing foreign involvement in petroleum development with national control of the region’s strategic resources. [url]