Kazakhstan's pipeline diplomacy

Keeping the oil flowing reliably will require placating and persuading a whole host of parties: Western governments, Russia, and Ukraine.

To keep the pipelines flowing, Kazakhstan’s diplomatic outreach needs to go into overdrive.

A report in the Financial Times last week suggested that Russia could in a reprisal over Ukraine’s strikes on its energy infrastructure look to cripple important infrastructure needed by the West.

The newspaper singled out the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) oil …