Research On The Role Of Georgia In The Transit Of Oil And Gas Pipeline

Energy, especially oil and natural gas, as a strategic resource, the growing scarcity of energy under the conditions of international actors often the focus of contention and struggle. Strategic position in these important energy-rich region, energy geopolitics (geopolitics of energy) are often associated with organically combine the geo-strategic and integrated role to play.Georgia is outside the Caucasus region, a small country, an important geographical location, the guardian of the Caspian energy resources to the throat of the Black Sea. At the same time, Georgia has with Russia, Transcaucasia poor security environment is connected with the conflict in the Caucasus belt. After independence, Georgia, since the issue left over from history with Russia, discord continued. After the Cold War with the West, especially the United States forces to enter, with regional powers Russia, engaged in a fierce battle.In this paper, starting from the energy in transit, a brief introduction of the concept of transit and pipeline diplomacy, and the Caspian Sea-Central Asia, active in the pipeline diplomacy simple analysis. Transit Georgia, the Baku-Tbilisi-Supsa oil pipeline (BTS), the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline (BTC), the South Caucasus gas pipeline, pipeline (SCP or BTE), and is planning to upcoming plan to invest in construction of the Nabucco (Nabucco Project) respectively represent the status of the formation of transit through Georgian territory to consolidate, develop and enhance the process. Among them, badger-line link up with a far-reaching significance.Georgia and Russia face a far cry from the dumping of the West line of Russia to Georgia in cracking down and sanctions. One model for the worsening of relations between the country's energy strategy is typical of the status of the formation of transit through Georgian territory to Russia's energy and also the geo-strategic far-reaching impact.The U.S. strategy of vivid manifestation of Transcaucasia in the region's unique geo-strategic interests and energy. Georgia's relations with the United States implementation of the strategy for the Caucasus has provided an arena and effective condition. At the same time, the status of Georgia's energy transit heavily dependent on energy imports to the EU of great significance.Of Georgia's energy transit status of the Caspian Sea coast, returned to the other production and transit country's energy exports have far reaching implications.Throughout the full text of Russia and the United States in Georgia's energy and geopolitical competition for cross-cutting theme of this article, Georgia how to effectively deal with major powers of the Game and their healthy and rapid development are closely linked.