Chapter Four. Natural Gas: Managing Pressure from Western Siberia to the Nürnberg Power Plant

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. A Note on How to Read This Book xv
5. A Note on Transliteration and Measurement Units xvii
6. PART ONE. The Overall Framework
7. Chapter One. Dependency on Russian Energy: Threat or Opportunity? 1
8. Chapter Two. Is Energy a Weapon or a Constituent Part of Disaggregated Power Relations? 16
9. Chapter Three. Energy: Materiality and Power 41
10. PART TWO. Hydrocarbon Chains and Political Power
11. Chapter Four. Natural Gas: Managing Pressure from Western Siberia to the Nürnberg Power Plant 77
12. Chapter Five. Oil: Managing Value Swings from Siberian Fields to Gasoline Stations in Germany 121
13. Chapter Six. Coal: Managing Subsidies from Kuzbass to Ukraine’s Metallurgical Complex in the Donbas to Germany 164
14. PART THREE. New Types of Energy and New Political Chains
15. Chapter Seven. And the Chains Meet Again 207
16. Chapter Eight. Disruptive Energies and the Tentative End of a System: An Epilogue 228
17. Appendix A: Glossary of Key Technical Terms in the Natural Gas, Oil, and Coal-Metallurgical Chains 251
18. Appendix B: Main Actors 269
19. Appendix C: Chronologies of Main Natural Gas, Oil, and Coal Market Events for Russia, Ukraine, and the European Union 279
20. Notes 285
21. Selected Bibliography 371
22. Index 401