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Nord Stream Project in the context of European energy security
Juříčková, Romana ; Horák, Slavomír (advisor) ; Šír, Jan (referee)
Bachelor thesis "Nord Stream Project in the context od European energy security is concerned with bulding a new pipeline to lin Russia directly to Western European Countries without a participation of transit countries on transportation of natural gas. First, Thesis explanes European energy policy which has recently responding to the growing consumption of natural gas in Europe and the dependece on Russia in gas supply. Then describes the possibilities for further diversification and expansion of existing resources and building new transport routes. The second main theme which is linked to the development European energy security is the Nord Stream pipeline. The paper provides basic informations about the project, about its beginning, its planned construction and about subjects which participate in it. Nord Stream may be regarded as a controversial project and the article explanes reasons. Finally it describes attitude of several European countries which are concerned in building the Nord Stream pipeline. Countries were selected in terms of attitude which they have toward the Nord Stream project. The text focused on the attitude of Russia and Germany as countries which bring the life of the project, promote it and find it beneficial, then on the attitude of Poland as a transit country which refuses the...
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Russian federation - energy policy and economization of foreign policy
Řezáč, Tomáš ; Kučerová, Irah (advisor) ; Petříček, Tomáš (referee)
The paper clearly shows that Russia has been diversifying its export routes during past 20 years, in order to by-pass third countries and to avoid paying additional transportation fees. The overall Russian export capacities of oil and gas are increasing, but in the same time the export volumes are stagnant. In case of oil transportation, pipelines are progressively substituted by sea transport, which enables Russia to participate on the world market. Situation with gas is different. Despite increasing export capacity Russia nowadays export almost the same amount of gas to the same locations as it did in 1990. It means that if there is any political or economical pressure it is laid against transition countries, which can be substituted, rather than against importing countries. Russian economical gains from export are following increasing oil and gas prices. To make the gains even higher, Russia initiated transition to world gas prices in the CIS countries as well as at the domestic market. To support the hypothesis of this thesis that primary goal of Russia is to increase its economical gains rather than to strengthen its political leverage, it is important to mention that majority of energy disputes of past twenty years were ignited by quarrel over prices and were settled by trade agreement. The...
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Problems of pipeline functioning in global business oil and gas operations
Shtanko, Elizaveta ; Novák, Radek (advisor) ; Mervart, Michal (referee)
Under the current intensive development of the world economy, there is a significant increase in integration of strategic sectors in countries towards the regional and international networks. Therefore, the potential of pipeline transport begins to take special foreign economic and geopolitical importance. The current status and development of this field is the object of an increased interest of all parties that are involved in the transport of raw materials. The more trades there are with oil and gas, the more issues related to its transport are occurred which all parties involved in the transport system faced to deal with. In the context of rapidly developing interconnection of global economies on regional level along with its undeniable reflection on international situation, it makes the functioning of already existing system of pipelines and realization of new projects related to construction of pipelines, with issues of economic, ecological and technical character that play an important role in delivering strategic energy products to world markets. At the same time the strong competition for the construction of pipeline facilities increases its geopolitical significance.
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European Union's dependence on imports of energy resources from Russia
Pavlíková, Olga ; Stuchlíková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Sudliankou, Aliaksandr (referee)
Gas Crisis in 2006 and especially in January 2009 showed the need of diversification of the energy routes to the European Union, in a case that a gas pipeline to Ukraine is cut off, most of the European Union's Member States will suffer from the lack of gas. The priority is not to reduce dependence on Russia but it is the consolidation of relations which is beneficial to both parties because the relationship is reciprocal rather than unilateral. To strengthen the energy security of the European Union there is a number of projects - new pipelines (Nord Stream, South Stream, Nabucco), and the import of LNG is being improved.
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Potential of the cooperation of Turkey with the Transcaucasus and Central Asian countries
Sobotková, Jana ; Dubský, Zbyněk (advisor) ; Matějka, Zdeněk (referee)
Práce se zaměřuje na analýzu spolupráce Turecka se zakavkazskými a středoasijskými státy zejména z hlediska zájmu Turecka a Evropské unie na diverzifikaci dodávek ropy a zemního plynu. Cílem je také ohodnocení potenciálu této spolupráce v oblasti kulturní, ekonomické a politické, zmapování vlivů EU a USA, kteří podporují Turecko v této spolupráci a souběžně vlivů Ruska, Íránu a Číny, jejichž zájmy se s těmi tureckými v daném regionu kříží. Rovněž záměrem práce je posouzení některých vnitropolitických změn v těchto zemích ve vztahu k Turecku.
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