{"id":1827,"date":"2008-08-16T12:56:42","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T12:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2008-08-18T11:23:43","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T11:23:43","slug":"oil-and-gas-pipelines-in-the-caucasus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/08\/oil-and-gas-pipelines-in-the-caucasus\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil and gas pipelines in the Caucasus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few days, my post linking the Georgia \/ Russia dispute over South Ossetia into the politics of energy supply has received a sizable amount of traffic, largely thanks to the funky <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1822\">pipeline maps<\/a> I dug out. As such, I thought I&#8217;d try and get some more detail and &#8211; thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.utexas.edu\/maps\/\">the University of Texas&#8217; superb online map resource<\/a>, now I&#8217;ve found an ideal one. It dates from 2001, so is slightly out of date, but still &#8211; it gives a rather good idea of what&#8217;s at stake in the entire Caspian \/ Black Sea region &#8211; as well as showing just why Georgia&#8217;s so important. Click on the image below to have a look at the full-sized version (Warning &#8211; it&#8217;s 2.5 megs, so not good for dial-up&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.utexas.edu\/maps\/middle_east_and_asia\/caspian_sea_oil_gas-2001.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3098\/2770879068_8664406cfa_b.jpg\" width=\"540\" alt=\"Black and Caspian Sea oil and gas pipelines\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few days, my post linking the Georgia \/ Russia dispute over South Ossetia into the politics of energy supply has received a sizable amount of traffic, largely thanks to the funky pipeline maps I dug out. As &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/08\/oil-and-gas-pipelines-in-the-caucasus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[40,87,38,121,61],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-caucasus-former-ussr-rest-of-the-world-politics","tag-energy","tag-georgia","tag-russia","tag-south-ossetia","tag-the-caucasus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}