Cover -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Increased Share of Natural Gas Consumption Compared with other Energy Resources -- Structure of Natural Gas Market Demand and Supply. Selahattin Kaynak Ibrahim Arslan and A. Yilmaz Ata -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Efficient Use of Energy -- 3. The Causes of the Demand for Energy -- 4. The Importance of Natural Gas and the Improvement Process -- 5. Natural Gas Market -- 6. World Natural Gas Reserves, Production, and Distribution -- 7. Wo orld Natura al Gas Con nsumption a and Distrib bution -- 8. World Natural Gas Consumption by Sectors -- 10. Natural Gas Market in the EU -- Conclusion -- References -- Increasing Energy Demand of the EU and Turkey's Role in Supplying Energy to the EU: Analyzing the Mutual Costs and Benefits. Abdulkadir Develi, Ahmet Ay and Zeynep Karaçor -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Analysis of the General Energy Demand of the EU -- 3. Role of Turkey in the Energy Demand of the EU -- Conclusion -- References -- Energy Security of the EU: Turkey and Russia. SabanÇalis and AbdulkadirDeveli -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Natural Gas Policy of Turkey -- 3. The EU's Natural Gas Policy and Security -- 4. Role of Russia -- 5. The Nabucco and South European Gas Ring (SEGR) 'Turkey-Greece-Italy Gas Interconnector' Projects -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Future of Russian Gas and its Energy Relations with the EU between now and 2020. Yuri Yegorov and Franz Wirl -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Costly Gas in Russian North -- 3. Natural Gas in Turkmenistan -- 4. Transit of Gas from the Caspian Region -- 5. The Model -- 6. Policy Implications. Scenario by 2020 -- 7. Conclusions -- 8. Literature -- Regional Integration and Energy: The Eurasian Case. Yesim Reel -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Regional Integration -- 3. The Eurasian Case -- 4. Conclusions -- References.

The Nabucco Project, Energy Supply Security and International Politics. Gökhan Özkan -- Introduction -- 1. National Power, Energy Supply Security and International Relations -- 2. The Nabucco Project -- 3. The Nabucco Project and Turkey -- Conclusion -- References -- Current Condition of OPEC as the Main Energy Player, and Position of OPEC and Particularly Saudi Arabia in the Face of Increasing Global Energy Demand. Müslüme Narin -- Introduction -- 1. Increase in World Primary Energy Demand (Current Situation and Future) -- 2. The Importance and History of Crude Oil -- 4. OPEC Oil Reserves, Production -- Conclusion -- Resources -- Energy Deficit and Dependency of Turkey. Yusuf Bayraktutan, Hakki M. Ay and Nazan Sahbaz -- Introduction -- 1. Energy Consumption -- 2. Energy Production -- 3. Dependency on Energy -- 4. Energy Use and Externality -- 5. Renewable Energy Resources and Their Use -- 6. Renewable Energy and Tax -- Conclusion -- References -- Enterprise Risk Management for the Energy Industry. Bünyamin Topçu and Sule GüneS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Risk and Risk Management -- 3. Enterprise Risk Management -- -- -- -- -- 4. ERM Compliance and Situation in the World -- 5. Risk Assessment with ERM -- 6. En nergy indus stry -- 7. Energy Risk Management -- 8. Energy Risks -- 9. Energy Risk Management Assessment and Application -- 10. An Enterprise Risk Management Model in the Energy Industry -- 11. Conclusion -- References -- Renewable Energy, Turkey and the World. Yusuf Bayraktutan, Sefer Ucak and Selahattin Kaynak -- Introduction -- 1. Energy Consumption and Renewable Energy Requirements -- 2. Renewable Energy Sources -- Conclusion -- References -- About the Authors.