Perspectives on the Caspian Sea Dilemma: A Framing Comment
(2003). Perspectives on the Caspian Sea Dilemma: A Framing Comment. Eurasian Geography and Economics: Vol. 44, No. 8, pp. 617-622.
Ownership of Oil and Gas Resources in the Caspian Sea
In the aftermath of the breakup of the Soviet Union and the birth of new sovereign nations bordering the Caspian Sea, the legal status of the sea has emerged as one of the most contentious international problems facing the region. The discovery of large offshore oil and gas deposits in the area has added urgency to the need to resolve the twin issues of the legal status of the sea and the corresponding mining rights. The Caspian, the largest inland body of water in the world, is approximately the size of Japan. The south Caspian is the deepest part and contains the most productive oil and gas fields. The oil-producing area of the south Caspian that holds the most promise extends along a narrow structural zone across the sea from the Apsheron Peninsula in Azerbaijan to the Peri-Balkhan region of western Turkmenistan.
Rapid Spatially Coupled AVO Inversion
The Bayesian methodology yields a natural framework for many geophysical inverse problem, see e.g. (Tarantola and Valette, 1982; Tarantola, 1987; Duijndam, 1988a; Duijndam, 1988b). The solution of a Bayesian inverse problem is represented by the posterior distribution. From the posterior distribution the best estimate and the corresponding uncertainty can be extracted and a set of plausible solutions can be drawn.