Gas Export Potential of Russia's East: Will it Match Asia-Pacific Markets?

Russia's Far East and East Siberia are emerging as new major sources of gas supplies for East Asian energy markets. Thanks to ongoing and earmarked resource and infrastructure developments in Sakhalin, Yakutia (Sakha) and Irkutsk, by around 2020 these poorly developed but naturally endowed area...

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Published in:Energy Exploration & Exploitation
Main Authors: Khartukov, Eugene, Starostina, Ellen
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publications 2002
Subjects:
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Fuel Technology
Nuclear Energy and Engineering
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Pacific
Sakha
Sakhalin
Yakutia
Siberia
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1260/014459802761022388
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1260/014459802761022388
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Summary:Russia's Far East and East Siberia are emerging as new major sources of gas supplies for East Asian energy markets. Thanks to ongoing and earmarked resource and infrastructure developments in Sakhalin, Yakutia (Sakha) and Irkutsk, by around 2020 these poorly developed but naturally endowed areas of the country's East can provide between 50 and 70 Bcm/yr (5–7 Bcfd) of natural gas, including up to 10 Mt/yr of LNG, available for exports to neighbouring Pacific countries (primarily to the PRC, Japan, South Korea as well as to Taiwan and the U.S. West Coast). This can noticeably reshape today's matrix of the Asia-Pacific energy flows and even destabilize the regional gas market.

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