#4 - Where In The World Is This Port Located (Neka, Iran) and Why Is It A Threat (Read Below)?
Crude Oil Port
Crude Oil Port, Detail
Peio of MAGIC Instinct Software knows his ports. He knows that this relatively recent Iranian port is located at the southern end of the Caspian Sea. I am still wondering if any of you know why it is a threat to the big 5 oil companies? Why it allows Russia and Iran to further bond national and economic interests? How Russian oil off-loaded at this small port turns into Iranian oil at Iran's Persian Gulf oil facilities?
I don't mean to be cryptic. The Neka port is able to off-load Russian oil and trade it for an equal amount of Iranian oil at Iran's Persian Gulf facilities - a barrel of Russian crude for a barrel of Iranian crude. Iran forms an economic alliance with Russia, Russia circumvents the Baku-Tiblisi-Ceyhan pipeline running from the Caspian area through Turkey and terminating at Turkey's Mediterranean port of Ceyhan. Iran gains a superpower ally and Russia gains a Middle Eastern foothold without fighting a war.
My website is about making maps. It isn't about my political, economic or social opinions. With that said, I'll get back to my world of maps and mapmaking
Enjoy!
Peio added the following as to why this port is considered to be a threat to the big 5 oil companies: Maybe because of the “Great Caspian Sea Oil Pipeline Game” : a
pipeline route through Iran would be the shortest and possibly
cheapest route for oil to Asian markets for the five states
surrounding the Caspian Sea (Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran
and Azerbaijan) which also discuss how to divide the resource-rich
seabed, referred to large oil reserves in the southern Caspian.
So the issue is about conflicts of interest over pipeline routes and
the U.S. tries to not leave them to Russia and Iran.
Posted by
Mr Minton |
10/19/2007 10:17:00 AM
By the way, according to this businessman from Esfahan Haftom-e-Tir Industries in Esfahan (Iran), the access to Google Earth is no more possible from his country :
http://yedda.com/questions/Google_Earth_available_country_1861172295211/#newpost
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Peio Elissalde
Magic Instinct Software
Posted by
Peio |
10/20/2007 01:04:00 AM