Europeanization of Energy Corridors

The Europeanization of public and private actors in the energy sector assessed through the Nabucco project

International Energy Policy Conference

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19 May 2011 : Energy policies and energy roads

09.00 – 09:30:  Registration

09.30 – 09:45 : Opening Session: Introduction to the conference

François Bafoil, Senior Research Fellow, CNRS – CERI Sciences Po, Paris
Olgu Okumuş, Ph.D. Candidate, CERI Sciences Po, Paris

09.45 -12:00: Session 1: EU Gas Security

Chairperson: Pierre Noël,  Director of Energy Policy Forum, EPRG University of Cambridge
Gas supply security: What it is, who enjoys it, and why?

Panelists:

• Malgorzata Mika-Bryska, Minister Councellor, Head of Economic and Trade Section, Permanent Representation of Poland to the EU, Brussels
  Energy prospects for Central Europe « 

12.00 – 13:30 Lunch Break

13.30 -15:00- Session 2:  Turkey at the crossroads of energy routes

Chairperson: Volkan Ediger, Director of Research and Graduate Policies, İzmir University of Economics, İzmir
Driving forces of Turkish energy policy

Panelists:

• Sohbet Karbuz, Head of the Oil and Natural Gas Department, OME
  « Diversification and energy transit routes« 

15.00 – 15:30 Coffee Break

15.30 -17:00- Session 3: New gas supply destinations

Chairperson: Bayram Balcı, Research Fellow, CERI-Sciences Po, Paris
« Geopolitics of the Caspian zone »

Panelists:

• Yelena Kalyuzhnova, Director, Center for Euro-Asian Studies, University of Reading, Berkshire
  « Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan strategies for the Southern energy corridor projects and Nabucco »
• Adeeb Munim, President, URUK, Center for Strategy and Development, Baghdad
  Iraq’s possible contribution to the Southern Corridor
• Turab Gurbanov, Presidential Administration of Azerbaïjan, Bakou
  « Azerbaijan’s energy diplomacy: European political cooperation »

20 May 2011 – Pieces of the puzzle supporting construction of the Southern energy corridor

09.00 -10:30- Session 4: New perspectives for the Southern energy corridor

Chairperson: Christof van Agt, Clingendael International Energy Program
« Transit and transit competition? »

Panelists:

• Florian Encke, Trade and Transit Department, The Energy Charter Secretariat
  « A legal framework to facilitate the diversification of energy supply routes »
• Anouk Honoré, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studie
• « Southern energy corridor project face to economic recession and natural gas demand in Europe

10.30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11.00 -13:00- Session 5: New perspectives for southern energy corridor

Chairperson: Marc-Antoine Eyl-Mazzega, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, CERI-Sciences Po, Paris
The Southern corridor projects at test: credibility, feasibility, efficiency and realism

Panelists:

Marco Margheri, Head of EU Representation, EDISON, Brussels
« The development of ITGI and IGB interconnectors as the first phase of the southern corridor »

Giorgi Vashakmadze, Director of Corporate Development, White Stream Consortium, Tbilisi
« Impact of the southern corridor on EU energy mix and the role of White Stream in catalyzing the opening of southern corridor »

13.00 – 14:00- Lunch Break

12.30 -16:30- Experience sharing meeting for young researchers

Chairperson: François Bafoil, Senior Research Fellow, CNRS – CERI Sciences Po, Paris

Panelists

Bern Weber, University of Frankfort
Fabrice Andreani, Ph.D. Candidate, Sciences Po-CERI, Paris
Inessa Baban, Université Sorbonne Paris 4
Kamila Waciega, Ph.D. Candidate, Sciences Po-CERI, Paris
Olgu Okumuş, Ph.D. Candidate, Sciences Po-CERI, Paris
Özlem Özkızılkaya, Ph.D. Candidate, Energy Systems and Policies Program, Mines Paris Tech
Samia Boucetta, Ph.D. Candidate, CERI-Sciences Po,Paris
Uğur Kaya, Ph.D. Candidate, EHESS, Paris