I’m leaving for Crimea later today, and have been busy packing up (leaving Ukraine soon too…), so excuse the lack of posting.
Like many others, I’m following the events in Georgia with great interest.
From the energy side of things, it looks like the BTC pipeline is relatively unaffected. And anyway, it was already shut down because of the blast in Turkey last week.
Azerbaijan stopped sending oil through Georgia, but the amount is relatively small anyway. However, this was going to be one of the routes for getting oil to Odessa-Brody, so it will be interesting to see if prolonged conflice emerges and if it will hamper that route further…
Back next week, hopefully will update again with more interesting things…
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