Global Game-Changers in Energy: Implications for Eurasia

“Building bridges and forging partnerships in regional energy”

The Bosphorus Energy Club is an exclusive membership-only gathering of the key shakers and movers in the energy and geopolitical world of Eurasia, the MENA, the Gulf, and Southeast Europe. It serves as a Track-II energy diplomacy channel as well as a discreet but powerful summit of the top decision-makers for regional issues.and projects.

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) |

London, 13 April 2015 | By Mehmet Öğütçü | Chairman

World energy game-changers

Changing dynamics, game, players and rules
New demand map, changes in energy mix, and unconventional supply sources
Shift in trading and investment patterns
Volatility in prices, technological breakthroughs
Environment, efficiency and climate change
Is energy security a national security matter?
Heightened geopolitical, cyber and other risks

Complex dynamics in Eurasia

No longer a “terra incognito” but out of focus on the international radar now
Substantial deposits of rich natural resources
The prizes of the new Great Game – Pipelines, tanker routes, petroleum consortiums and PSCs
East of Baku – it is China and Russia to play
SCO, Eurasia Union, BSEC, ECO, China Silk Road Fund
Sanctions against Russia hurt Central Asia
Intra-Central Asian conflicts, political succession risk