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SOUTHERN EUROPE
Alpine ranges
Brief history of the country (disputed)
Kosovo (the Republic of Kosovo) is a land-locked disputed state in the central Balkan Peninsula. It is bordered by Macedonia and Albania to the south, Montenegro to the west, and Serbia to the north and east.
Kosovo originates from the Roman province of Dardania, changing hands many times until becoming a permanent part of Serbia by 1346. The Battle of Kosovo Field in 1389 initiated the collapse of the Serbian Empire and in 1455 the Ottoman Empire took control. Over the centuries Islam was introduced and Albanians moved into the area.
The Ottomans ceded Kosovo to the Balkan League after the 1913 Balkan War. Serbia regained the largest part whilst Montenegro annexed the west (Metohija), eventually unifying as Yugoslavia in 1929. The Serbian population expanded in Kosovo and in 1945 the Province of Kosovo and Metohija was created within Yugoslavia.
Albanians began to gain some power in the province but were brutally suppressed in the 1980s. Yugoslavian breakup then led to new demands for sovereignty and ethnic tensions culminated in the Kosovo War of 1998.
The war ended with intervention by NATO and the region became a UN protectorate. In 2008 independence was declared but Serbia refuses to recognise Kosovo as an independent country.
Oil and gas summary
Most of Kosovo's terrain is mountainous. The highest peak is Deravica at 2,656 m. There are two narrow plains; the Metohija basin in the west, and the Plain of Kosovo in the east.
Land-locked Kosovo lies between the Dinarides and the Hellenides tectonic zones which are the southern branch of the Alps. Most of Kosovo thus has an uplifted, eroded and highly faulted sedimentary cover which extends south along the East coast of the Adriatic and Ionian Seas.
Globalshift considers it unlikely that any potential oil and gas resources could have survived its recent geological history.
The country has no history of production and no exploration wells have ever been drilled. Globalshift does not forecast any future production of oil or gas from the country.
KOSOVO
Map and National Flag
Southern Europe
Capital
Population
Land area (sq kms)
Oil prod (000s b/d)
Gas prod (bcm/yr)
Oil cons (000s b/d)
Gas cons (bcm/yr)
Pristina
1.8 mm
10,908
None
None
10
None
Government
Kosovo is a representative democratic republic. Legislative power is vested in a 120-member Assembly of Kosovo. A President is head of state and a Prime Minister head of government.
International supervision is operating under the auspices of the UN. While Serbia recognises governance by Kosovan institutions it continues to claim it as its own Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija.
There is no government department specifically responsible for oil and gas resources.