Energy Highlights No.7

Energy Security in the NATO Framework

JURGITA LUNYTĖ, JONAS URBANAVIČIUS

Energy security recently became one of the main elements in global security considerations. In the article, NATO’s capability and legal competence to act in the area of energy security are analysed from supranational, multinational and bilateral perspectives.

Unconventional Energy as a Game Changer in the Gulf

IR. WILLEM AUPING, DR. SIJBREN DE JONG

The US’ shale gas revolution may, even without a similar rapid increase in natural gas extraction capacity in other countries, indicate the beginning of a period with lower oil prices. Shale gas could, therefore, pose bad news for traditional oil exporting countries in the Gulf.

Operational Energy: A Multi-Faceted Government Approach

SUZANNE CASSOLATO, LLOYD CHUBBS, ED ANDRUKAITIS, VIVIER LEFEBVRE AND MARTIN KEGEL

Simulation exercises aimed at reducing diesel dependency at military deployable camps and stations in
Canada show that a 50% reduction can be achieved in total fuel consumption of cold weather operations.
Can those achievements be translated into real-life technology demonstrations using actual military exercises?