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The most difficult challenge to American civilian nuclear energy is spent fuel.
By Ariel Cohen
The Wall Street Journal
November 25, 2014
Europe’s dependency on Russian gas, especially in Central and Eastern Europe, has become a major strategic liability for the West. This is especially true as the war in Eastern Ukraine has brought relations between Moscow and Brussels as well as many of the European capitals to new lows.
By Ariel Cohen
Journal of Energy Security
November 20, 2014
США грозят РФ новыми санкциями, если Москва признает голосование легитимным.
November 2, 2014
RBK Russian Business TV Channel
While energy experts love to discuss climate change, they often disregard the actual costs and benefits of this phenomenon. As political violence rises globally, addressing, let alone reversing, climate change, is becoming increasingly challenging. Whether climate change is man-made or not, the economic cost of any proposed systemic solution can be exorbitant.
October 3, 2014
By Dr. Ariel Cohen
ARIEL COHEN: If I could pass one energy policy, what would it be?I would open federal lands and offshore acreage for hydrocarbon prospecting. The Wall Street Journal – The Experts
September 30, 2014
By Dr. Ariel Cohen
Increases in energy efficiency and conservation can be addressed at the government level in policy, but in the U.S. real changes in energy consumption begin with the consumer.
By Dr. Ariel Cohen
The Wall Street Journal
September 29, 2014
Ariel Cohen, director of the Center for Energy Natural Resources and Geopolitics at the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, said the situation “looks like a disaster for Ukraine, but more importantly, it looks like a disaster for the cause of nonproliferation.
The Washington Times
September 1, 2014
Russia is being forced to pay back almost $52bn to former share holders of defunct oil group, Yukos.This, according to a court ruling by the Hague on Thursday.The decision, which comes almost ten years after the oil company went bankrupt, is being hailed as a victory for justice by market analysts.
August 1, 2014
RFI
A leading American energy and geopolitics expert and the Principal of International Market Analysis, a natural resources advisory company, Ariel Cohen spoke to Trend regarding several topical issues, including the U.S.-Azerbaijan relations, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, recent developments in Iraq and Iran's disputed nuclear program.
By Claude Salhani
Trend AZ
July 8, 2014
Vladimir Putin is the father of the most significant energy mix shift in Europe. Ukraine may be the straw that broke the back of the energy camel. As a result, Russia is about to lose a lot of revenue. Talk about the unintended consequences.
Even before Putin occupied the Crimea and supported separatist insurgency in Eastern Ukraine, the EU Commission began to seek ways to diminish the continent’s dependence on the Russian gas.
By Ariel Cohen
The Heritage Foundation
May 26, 2014
Vladimir Putin is the father of the most significant energy mix shift in Europe. Ukraine may be the straw that broke the back of the energy camel.
As a result, Russia is about to lose a lot of revenue. Talk about the unintended consequences.
Even before Putin occupied the Crimea and supported separatist insurgency in Eastern Ukraine, the EU Commission began to seek ways to diminish the continent’s dependence on the Russian gas.
By Ariel Cohen
Wall Street Journal
May 21, 2014
Ten years from now, electric (EV), hybrid and natural-gas powered cars will make some, albeit not yet decisive, inroads in our lives. There are economic, lifestyle and technological reasons for this. First, it is the technology of hydraulic fracturing, and improved 3-D seismic and imaging techniques, which provides us with the ability to find even small oil and gas fields in abundance.
By Ariel Cohen
Wall Street Journal
May 19, 2014
China's View of Ukraine On Sunday, March 16, 2014, Crimea voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence from Ukraine and unity with Russia. What are China's views on the crisis involving the Crimea, Ukraine and Russia? How do China's interests converge or diverge from Russia's.
Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC.
March 22,2014
Radio Television Hong Kong
Increasing global power demand—coupled with high natural gas prices in Asia and Europe for electricity generation, and the alarmist climate change narrative—make the right energy generation balance a national priority for developed and developing countries. France and Russia—the current market leaders in nuclear-power-plant construction—are taking full advantage of this market demand.
By Ariel Cohen
The National Interest
November 19, 2013
Lithuania is building a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at the port of Klaipeda. The project, which is expected to be operational by 2014, will give the Baltic nation access to the world’s LNG market. Today, the nation’s existing natural gas infrastructure consists of a single pipeline owned by the Russian-government-controlled energy giant Gazprom.
By Ariel Cohen and Daniel Kochis
The Heritage Foundation
July 18, 2013
What does growing U.S. oil production mean for energy markets and geopolitics?
By Ariel Cohen
March 26, 2013
Central Asia, especially Kazakhstan—rich in oil and gas, and the world’s largest landlocked country—is the focus of many Fortune 500 companies seeking new business development and market penetration in emerging economies. In the 2012 edition of the Index of Economic Freedom, Kazakhstan’s economy ranks as the 65th-freest in the world.
By Ariel Cohen and James M. Roberts
The Heritage Foundation
June 26, 2012
There are many stories of Western oil-company adventures in Russia. Some of them end well, and some of them end badly.
By Ariel Cohen
The National Interest, June 11,2012
By Ariel Cohen and Anton Altman
Total, Europe’s third largest oil company, announced last Friday that they have made a major gas discovery in the Caspian Sea.
The discovery, made in the Absheron block off the coast of Azerbaijan, is thought to have large pockets of gas spread over a 270-square-kilometer field and holds about 350 billion cubic meters of natural gas and 45 million metric tons of gas condensate, according to SOCAR, the state oil company of Azerbaijan.
By Ariel Cohen and Anton Altman
Last week, oil giant ExxonMobil announced an agreement with Russia’s state oil company, Rosneft, to explore for oil in the Arctic continental shelf in the Kara Sea. America’s largest oil company is taking the place of BP (British Petroleum), whose dealings with Rosneft earlier this year collapsed.
Ariel Cohen and Anton Altman
The accelerated melting of the polar icecaps and recent Russian announcement that the Northern Sea Route (NSR) is now “ice-free” beg the question of whether or not the passage is already a commercially viable option. The Heritage Foundation examined Russia’s ambitious plans for the “last frontier” in the High North in great detail.
By Ariel Cohen & Anton Altman
A report released last week by the Baker Institute at Rice University, “Shale Gas and U.S. National Security,” focused on the foreign policy benefits of this domestically produced fuel. The authors undertook the study in light of the tremendous growth in discoveries of natural gas from shale in North America and the technological innovations that made it possible.
By Ariel Cohen
Tensions are rising in the eastern Mediterranean between Israel and Lebanon, this time over roughly 430 square miles of contested waters that contain considerable underwater gas reserves. Iran, Hezbollah and Syria are all interested in a war withIsrael, each for their own reasons. Tehran and Damascus want to save the embattled regime of Bashar Assad.
Ariel Cohen and Michaela Bendikova
The United States lacks effective energy policy responses in the event of a major oil crisis. This was the conclusion reached at a recent simulation by Securing America’s Future Energy. Little surprise here: We arrived at the same conclusion in three energy simulation exercises conducted at The Heritage Foundation in 2007,2008, and 2010.
