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Chalous Gas Field Unlikely To Make Iran A Big Supplier

November 25, 2021 ARTICLES, Energy Market, Featured, important 0

With a potential output worth $450 billion over its first 20 years, Iran’s Chalous gas field in the Caspian Sea, raises issues of both finance and where the gas might sell. The field, whose discovery Iran proclaimed in June and which has perhaps 3.5 trillion cubic meters (m3) of gas, reportedly is part …

Will renewable energy be a major part of the Saudi energy mix?

December 22, 2019 ARTICLES 0

In recent years, Saudi Arabia has had a comprehensive plan to reduce the share of oil in its economy, and it is seeking to increase the share of renewable energy in electricity generation. Saudi Arabia currently consumes about a quarter of its oil production, which is expected to remain almost …

Umud Shokri is a Washington-based senior foreign policy and energy geopolitics advisor and author of US Energy Diplomacy in the Caspian Sea Basin: Changing Trends Since 2001.
He has served as a visiting research scholar at the Center for Energy Science and Policy (CESP),
an initiative of the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University and is
an advisor at Gulf State Analytics (GSA), a Washington-based geopolitical risk consultancy.
Umud holds a Ph.D. in International Relations. He comes with extensive expertise and
professional experience in global energy market studies, energy security, the geopolitics of
climate change, industrial policy for clean energy, as well as foreign policy in the context of
climate change and energy transition. His primary research interests lie in energy diplomacy and
energy transition, U.S. energy policy, the geopolitics of energy, Iran-Turkey relations, as well as Iran-Russia relations, the Caspian Sea region, Central Asia and the GCC.