{"id":375883,"date":"2020-09-29T11:18:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T05:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=375883"},"modified":"2020-09-29T12:03:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T06:33:47","slug":"azerbaijan-armenia-conflict-isnt-spooking-energy-markets-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/azerbaijan-armenia-conflict-isnt-spooking-energy-markets-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict isn\u2019t spooking energy markets. Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With weeks to go before Azerbaijan is due to start piping gas to the European Union, a decades-old conflict with its Eurasian neighbor Armenia is flaring up again. So far, oil and gas markets have yet to be spooked by the conflict \u2014 perhaps because global energy demand was drastically reduced by the Covid-19 pandemic, meaning producers the world over have spare capacity should the worst-case scenario arise \u2014 the bombing of the pipeline and an ensuing environmental disaster. In normal times, a material disruption would likely boost energy prices. <\/p>\n<p>The conflict centers on the Nagorno-Karabakh region claimed by both countries. In theory, it has the potential to disrupt oil and gas flows from Azerbaijan, since export pipelines from the Caspian Sea region\u2019s second-biggest crude producer run within just 10 miles of its border with Armenia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With weeks to go before Azerbaijan is due to start piping gas to the European Union, a decades-old conflict with its Eurasian neighbor Armenia is flaring up again. So far, oil and gas markets have yet to be spooked by the conflict \u2014 perhaps because global energy demand was drastically reduced by the Covid-19 pandemic, meaning producers the world over have spare capacity should the worst-case scenario arise \u2014 the bombing of the pipeline and an ensuing environmental disaster. In normal times, a material disruption would likely boost energy prices. The conflict centers on the Nagorno-Karabakh region claimed by both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}