Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- List of contributors
- Foreword by James A. Baker, III
- Acknowledgments
- List of acronyms and abbreviations
- Part I Introduction and context
- Part II Historical case studies
- 2 Introduction to the historical case studies: research questions, methods and case selection
- 3 The Transmed and Maghreb projects: gas to Europe from North Africa
- 4 Liquefied natural gas from Indonesia: the Arun project
- 5 Bypassing Ukraine: exporting Russian gas to Poland and Germany
- 6 Natural gas pipelines in the Southern Cone
- 7 International gas trade in Central Asia: Turkmenistan, Iran, Russia, and Afghanistan
- 8 Liquefied natural gas from Qatar: the Qatargas project
- 9 Liquefied natural gas from Trinidad & Tobago: the Atlantic LNG project
- 10 Politics, markets, and the shift to gas: insights from the seven historical case studies
- Part III International gas trade economics
- Part IV Implications
- Appendix: Technical notes
- Index
- References
6 - Natural gas pipelines in the Southern Cone
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- List of contributors
- Foreword by James A. Baker, III
- Acknowledgments
- List of acronyms and abbreviations
- Part I Introduction and context
- Part II Historical case studies
- 2 Introduction to the historical case studies: research questions, methods and case selection
- 3 The Transmed and Maghreb projects: gas to Europe from North Africa
- 4 Liquefied natural gas from Indonesia: the Arun project
- 5 Bypassing Ukraine: exporting Russian gas to Poland and Germany
- 6 Natural gas pipelines in the Southern Cone
- 7 International gas trade in Central Asia: Turkmenistan, Iran, Russia, and Afghanistan
- 8 Liquefied natural gas from Qatar: the Qatargas project
- 9 Liquefied natural gas from Trinidad & Tobago: the Atlantic LNG project
- 10 Politics, markets, and the shift to gas: insights from the seven historical case studies
- Part III International gas trade economics
- Part IV Implications
- Appendix: Technical notes
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
Discussions of trade in natural gas in South America's Southern Cone (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay) began as early as the 1950s. But it was not until 1972 that the first international gas pipeline in the region, linking Bolivia and Argentina, was built. It was twenty years later before significant gas pipeline projects integrating Chile and Argentina were proposed, followed by one large project connecting Bolivia and Brazil (see the map in figure 6.1.)
This chapter examines three historical cases to understand why there was a twenty-five-year lag between the first international pipeline project and the others, and to uncover the key factors that determine why particular pipeline projects were built while similar proposed pipelines languished. The 1970s pipeline, “YABOG,” linked Bolivia and Argentina and competed with an alternative project to send Bolivian gas to Brazil. Information on this pipeline project is limited, as the main financier of the project, the World Bank, has not yet released its records. The YABOG case thus serves mainly as historical background for the contemporary projects. This chapter examines in detail competition in two major gas trade projects in the 1990s. First, it examines the GasAndes pipeline and the competing alternative, Transgas – both projects would transport Argentine gas to Chile. Second, it analyzes the decision to supply Brazil with Bolivian gas (via a pipeline known as GasBol) rather than Argentine gas (via the Paraná–Porto Alegre project).
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- Natural Gas and GeopoliticsFrom 1970 to 2040, pp. 169 - 201Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006
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