Oil Export Logistics from Kazakhstan
Julian Lee
Senior Energy Analyst
Centre for Global Energy Studies
Mr Lee joined the Centre for Global Energy Studies at its creation in 1989. He specialises in global oil
market
analysis and the oil industries of the former Soviet Union and
sub-Saharan Africa, overseeing all the CGES’ work in these latter
areas. Mr Lee has written extensively on many aspects of the oil
industry of the former Soviet Union, i
ncluding the production
prospects for both Russia and the Caspian region, the export options
for oil and gas producers in both regions and the dynamics of and
prospects for Russian oil demand.
Mr Lee is a frequent
commentator on global oil markets and on the oil industry in the former
Soviet Union and the proposed export projects of Russia and the Caspian
countries.
John Cohen, Tanker Shipping Consultancy Services. Following ten years in supply and distribution with Total in the UK.
John spent seventeen years in broking and operations, managing and running a number of tanker broking companies.
He joined Reuters in 1992 to develop information services for the transport markets and to manage their tanker shipping service.
He left Reuters in 2001 and now works as the Operations Manager at
Riverside Tanker Chartering, a shipbroking company working in the bulk
vegoils, molasses and chemicals markets.
John has provided
training for the shipping and energy markets in tanker chartering and
operations for the last 15 years and, as well as running this course
and participating, he lectures regularly both in the UK and abroad.
Mr Lee writes for the CGES on a wide range of
subjects outside his areas of special interest, including the
geopolitics of oil, the political and economic problems faced by major
oil producers in the Middle East and general OPEC issues.
Julian
Lee is also responsible for the CGES’ publication, ‘Oil Market
Prospects’ and regularly contributes research-based articles and the
oil market review and forecast section for the ‘Global Oil Report’.
Julian also writes much of the ‘Monthly Oil Report’ and produces the
CGES’ ‘Annual Oil Market Forecast and Review’.
Mr Lee is
frequently interviewed for both recorded and live TV and radio
broadcasts (BBC, ITN, CNN, Sky News, CNBC among others) on a wide
variety of oil, gas and energy matters. Both the specialist and general
print media also frequently seek his opinion on oil and gas matters. Mr
Lee is a member of the Editorial Board for the Canadian Energy Research
Istitute’s ‘Geopolitics of Energy’ and is also a regular presenter at
conferences organised by the CGES and others on a wide range of oil-
and gas-related subjects. Julian Lee has lectured on energy matters at
summer schools organised by the German Society for Foreign Affairs and
the Central European University.
Julian Lee is a graduate in
Mathematics from the University of Warwick and received his Master
Degree in Operational Research from the London School of Economics.