L’appétit tous azimuts du Pacte de Shanghaï

Le Pacte de Shanghaï, ou Organisation de Coordination de Shanghaï, ayant décidé d’exister, et de diablement exister, les projets apparaissent concernant son extension et son renforcement. La dimension énergétique de la puissance des membres du Pacte est une évidence. Elle suggère des initiatives dans ce domaine. C’est le cas du concept d’“Energy Club” ou “SCO Energy Commonwealth”.

L’Agence Regnum donne une analyse sur le projet :

« Deputy technical engineer of the Open Stock Holding Company Barki Tojik (Tajik electric power) Rashid Gulov told REGNUM correspondent that the idea of creating the SCO’s Energy club is beneficial for Tajikistan’s economic interests. He said that the SCO member countries, particularly, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan possess vast energy resources and hydrocarbon fuel. On the other hand, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan have immense hydroelectric energy resources that, if they are jointly explored and rationally used, could tangibly improve the energy security of all the countries in the region. “If all the SCO member countries and those who are willing to join it — Iran, Pakistan, and India — join their efforts to create the SCO Energy Commonwealth, this could become the world’s most powerful energy alliance. And this commonwealth most likely may be regarded as an alternative to OPEC,” Gulov suggested.

» Gulov also said that the energy body of SCO should, first of all, solve the issues of effective use of energy resources possessed by its member countries. “Today, each of the countries has its own energy policy, lacks basic energy saving policy, lacks a rational approach to natural gas and oil production, without giving a thought to the fact that in 10-15 years, these resources will be used up. If we had a visibly acting energy union, then we could raise the issue of why we have to burn so much of natural gas to produce electric energy if we have huge renewable energy sources in the neighboring Tajikistan. Both countries could build tens of large water power plants on Tajikistan’s territory. In this case, Uzbekistan could use natural gas for imports, to boost chemical industry output, and so forth.”

» Russia, China, and Kazakhstan have already started to work on the problem, Gulov said. “Russia intends to finish the Rogun and Sangutdin hydroelectric power plants construction; China is interested in building both power transmission lines and water power plants as such in Tajikistan; Kazakhstan has an immense interest to build 2nd and 3d construction stages of the Rogun water power plant and a hydroelectric power station cascade on the Zerafshan River. Besides, Kazakhstan is regarding the possibility of building a power transmission line from the city of Khujand in the north of Tajikistan to Chimkent in Kazakhstan’s south. Deficit of electric power in Kazakhstan, especially in the south of the country, will amount to around 40bn kW/h, and the country’s government is analyzing options of exporting Tajik electric power,” Gulov said. »

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