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23/12/2013

Working paper: Energy Security in the supply of oil and natural gas: vulnerabilities and new supply routes

By 2030 it is estimated that the EU's dependence on fossil fuels will be between 69% and 77%. A number of problems such as economic sanctions or political instability determine global hydrocarbon prices. Others, such as cyber attacks, terrorism and environmental disasters from oil spills also affect supply. New findings of oil and gas resources in Israel, Syria, Lebanon, the Palestinian Territories and Cyprus are shaping a new geopolitics of energy within a framework of an increasingly complex conflict in the Middle East. On the other hand, exporting countries like Russia and the republics of the Caspian and Central Asia have opened up new supply routes and have under project the construction of new pipelines such as the TAPI pipeline to export Turkmen gas through Afghanistan.

This document is part of the Research Commission 2013 Energy CESEDEN composed of the following members:
President Guillermo Velarde Pinacho, Vocal Secretary: M ª del Mar García Hidalgo. Members: José Canosa, Rafael Caro Manso, Natividad Carpintero Santamaria, José Luis Díaz Fernández, Emilio Minguez Torres, José Manuel Pearl Martin, Juan José Sanz Donaire, Enrique Soria Lascorz and Juan Velarde Fuertes.

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