Ukraine and Slovakia in a post-crisis architecture of European energy security [antikvár]

Ukraine and Slovakia in a post-crisis architecture of European energy security 1. Introduction: Slovakia and Ukraine in Eurasian energy area 1.1 EURASIAN TRANS-CONTINENTAL HYDROCARBON AXIS: MOSCOW -KYIV - BRATISLAVA - PRAGUE - BERLIN - BRUSSELS 7.7.7. Hydrocarbon landscape of Eurasia A wide strip of mainland and continental shelf territory starting from the Russian sector of the Arctic up to the Arabian Peninsula can be labelled an Arctic - Arabian hydrocarbon belt (CH-belt) of Eurasia. It is the strip where the major mainland oil and gas fields are located on the territory of Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, and the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula countries. As the production of hydrocarbons has been developing, transport routes to the markets of their consumption, the major of which is the European Union, started to branch off this diagonal CH-belt of Eurasia in the latitudinal direction. Practically, these transport routes connect the area of production (upstream) with the consumption market (downstream).