Review article
INTEGRATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA INTO THE GLOBAL FLOWS OF ENERGY GENERATING PRODUCTS
Tanja Poletan-Jugović
; University of Rijeka, Faculty of Maritime Studies Rijeka
Daria Nahtigal
; University of Rijeka, Faculty of Maritime Studies Rijeka
Abstract
Developments on the global energy generating products market, the market instability and the increasing role of geopolitics in the energy supply are the relevant factors that continuously affect the formation of the energy generating products flows on the market, and, consequently, the formation and features of the flows of energy in the Republic of Croatia. A direct involvement in the transit transport flows of energy generating products includes a strategic advantage that opens great economic opportunities and represents an important precondition for the economic growth and development. Accordingly, the article analyzes the integration of the Republic of Croatia into the world energy generating products trends and the appropriate energy infrastructure – that is, into the energy traffic network. Considering the strategic importance of oil and gas as energy generating products, the intensity and the specific directions in developing oil and gas flows are especially analyzed, and some significant conclusions about the possibilities and opportunities of the Croatian integration into the world energy flows are presented too. Finally, the paper aims at analyzing the relevant factors and important projects that should contribute to the recognition of the energy generating products flows in the Republic of Croatia, and to thus ensure a high supply of energy within the whole country.
Keywords
flows of energy generating products; oil; gas; infrastructure projects; the Republic of Croatia; world
Hrčak ID:
45466
URI
Publication date:
23.12.2009.
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