Oxford Institute for Energy Studies & St Antony's College

OIES Geopolitics of Energy Seminar Series

The Geopolitics of Energy seminars run in Hilary and Trinity terms of each academic year.

A rapidly changing global energy scene, dominated by volatile oil and gas prices, the emergence of powerful new consumers in the Asia-Pacific region, reserve depletion within the OECD and the instability in the energy producing regions, caused by domestic, regional and international political actions, have contributed to the instability of energy markets. This seminar series, run in association with St. Antony's College, Oxford, will focus on the role played by geopolitics in the energy sector.

Geopolitics refers to the way geography, politics, and economics influence international relations, individual countries, their foreign policies, as well as their economic and political security.

Most of the lectures in this seminar will be given by high-level guest speakers with special expertise and experience in the energy field.

Wednesdays, 5 p.m. Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road

Convener: Dr Shamil Midkhatovich Yenikeyeff

21 January	Michael Stoppard CERA	Geopolitics of Liquefied Natural Gas. Is LNG a solution to Europe’s pipeline dependence?
28 January	Simon Pirani OIES	The Russo-Ukrainian 'gas war', and what happens next (chaired by Dr Alex Pravda, the Director of the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre, St Antony’s College)
04 February	Christopher Allsopp OIES	The Financial Crisis, World Recession and Energy
11 February	NO LECTURE
18 February	Juan Carlos Boue (TBC) Ministry of Energy and Petroleum, Venezuela	Resource Nationalism in Latin America
25 February	NO LECTURE
04 March	Bassam Fattouh OIES	OPEC and the Oil Price Crisis
11 March	Jenik Radon Columbia University	The Problems of Transborder Pipelines: BTC, BTE, Trans-Caspian and Nabucco

Oxford Institute for Energy Studies & St Antony's College

OIES Geopolitics of Energy Seminar Series

Geopolitics refers to the way geography, politics, and economics influence international relations, individual countries, their foreign policies, as well as their economic and political security.

Most of the lectures in this seminar will be given by high-level guest speakers with special expertise and experience in the energy field.

Wednesdays, 5 p.m. Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road

Trinity 2008

23 April	Dr Valerie Marcel Associate Fellow, Energy, Environment and Development Programme, Chatham House	Oil Titans: National Oil Companies of the Middle East
30 April	Dr Bassam Fattouh Director of the MSc in Management for the Middle East and North Africa, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London	How secure are the Middle East Oil Supplies?
07 May	Timothy Krysiek, Associate, Russian and Caspian Energy, Cambridge Energy Research Associates, United States Dr Shamil Yenikeyeff, Research Fellow, OIES Senior Associate Member, St Antony’s College	THE ARCTIC: A Battle for the Next Energy Frontier?
14 May	NO LECTURE	NO LECTURE
21 May	Dr Ricardo Soares de Oliveira University Lecturer in Comparative Politics (African Politics), University of Oxford	Oil and Politics in Africa
28 May	Dr Juan Carlos Boué Senior Advisor, Ministry of Energy and Petroleum, Venezuela	Resource nationalism in Latin America
04 June	Leigh A. Bolton, Principal and Managing Director Holmwood Consulting	Geopolitics of Liquefied Natural Gas
11 June	Dr Marianne Haug Chair, European Commission Advisory Group on Energy	Geopolitics of Renewable Energy

During Hilary 2008 the seminar focused on Eurasia.

16 January	Christopher Allsopp OIES	Oil prices, security and the world economy
23 January	Robert Mabro OIES	Geopolitics of Energy: New Challenges and Opportunities
30 January	Professor Jonathan Stern OIES	Russia and Europe: energy issues
06 February	Professor Dieter Helm New College	Europe's external energy policy
13 February	Tatiana Mitrova Centre for Global Energy Markets, Russian Academy of Sciences	Companies and the Changing Energy Rules: Russia and Europe
20 February	Shamil Yenikeyeff OIES	The Battle for Russian Oil: The Kremlin, Governors and Oligarchs
27 February	John Roberts Platts	Geopolitics of the Caspian and Central Asian energy
05 March	Keun-Wook Paik OIES	Asia and the FSU: a new energy paradigm?