From the Energy Crises to Mutual Trust through Transparency in the Upstream – Midstream – Downstream Chain
From the Energy Crises to Mutual Trust through Transparency in the Upstream – Midstream – Downstream Chain

Summary/Abstract: Events of January 2006 and January 2009 were included in European history as periods of the gas crises. Although these conflicts arose between Ukraine and Russia, their scale and impact reached the level of ‘gas wars’ and affected the entire European continent, creating an atmosphere of mutual distrust in the chain ‘Supplier – Transit country – Consumer’. Their impact on energy cooperation in Europe can be largely comparable with the effects of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Middle East conflicts for the military-political sphere in the world at the time. Therefore, in author’s opinion, the continent needs to develop measures of confidence, by analogy with how it was done in the military sphere in the 70-80s of the last century. As he argues, developing and adopting such measures would promote decreasing of tensions that appeared during gas crises and has been deepening as a result of less extensive, but threatening the oil transit, quarrels in the Russian-Belarusian and Russian-Ukrainian relations on the verge of 2009-2010.

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