Beyond the Bypass: ASTRA and the Arabian Peninsula’s New Energy Architecture
ASTRA proposes resilient Arabian Sea energy corridors linking Saudi Arabia and Yemen, bypassing vulnerable chokepoints.
Author Profile
Dean Mikkelsen
Founder & Editorial Director of Power & Corridors.
Dean Mikkelsen is the Founder & Editorial Director of Power & Corridors, an independent media and intelligence platform focused on geopolitics, maritime security, trade corridors, ports, energy, infrastructure, aviation, logistics and strategic risk.
His work examines how geopolitical power moves through ports, shipping lanes, logistics networks, critical infrastructure, energy systems, sanctions, investment flows and access to strategic markets.
Power & Corridors focuses on the intersection of strategic geography and commercial risk, with particular attention to the Middle East, Eurasia, Africa, the Arctic, the Indo-Pacific and the global maritime system.
Areas of focus
- Maritime security
- Ports and shipping
- Trade corridors
- Geopolitical risk
- Energy and infrastructure
- Aviation security
- Supply-chain disruption
- Middle East and Eurasian geopolitics
- Strategic communications
- Business risk and strategic geography
Power & Corridors
Power & Corridors is being developed as a platform for analysis, reports, briefings, podcasts, events and applied intelligence around the systems that move global power.
The platform examines how conflict, sanctions, infrastructure competition, maritime insecurity, energy disruption and corridor politics shape commercial decision-making, strategic access and global trade.