Georgia is an important link in the energy corridor that connects the oil-rich Caspian region with the outside world.

ECONOMIST: Tension grows over Abkhazia

It includes a new workshop and storage facility near Houston's energy corridor and a new base at Villahermosa, Mexico.

BBC: EnerMech worker

This week's news that the European Union had reached an initial gas deal with Turkmenistan, for example, highlights yet again Georgia's role as an energy corridor linking Europe with Central Asia.

ECONOMIST: Georgia in the firing line: who��s watching?

In Houston, where the oil bust of the mid-1980s led to see-through buildings devoid of tenants, brokers are wary of space proliferating in the "energy corridor, " running along Interstate 10 from western Houston toward the suburb of Katy.

FORBES: The great suburban overbuild

The war would probably drag on, robbing President Thein Sein of the peaceful new start he is promising his country, entrenching the power of the military in this strategic border area, and unnerving China, which sees Kachin state as a vital trade and energy corridor.

BBC: Kachin rebels defiant on Burma's northern front line

Its potential as an energy transit corridor to Europe was again made obvious during January's gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine.

ECONOMIST: America, Europe and Turkey

Energy, manufacturing and agriculture are playing a major role in the corridor states' revival.

WSJ: Joel Kotkin: America's Red State Growth Corridors

Up on the committee corridor there's the first meeting of the new Energy and Climate Change sub-committee on local energy (2pm) looking at the contribution small and medium-sized projects could make to the UK's energy supply, and at barriers to medium-sized and community-owned projects.

BBC: Week ahead

When completed, NEPS will increase available electric energy to over 50 percent of the population of Afghanistan located along its north to south corridor.

FORBES: Like No Place on Earth: How U.S. Businesses Are Succeeding in Afghanistan