Key factors influencing the reliability of trunk gas pipelines in the West Siberian North ...
For many years Russia has been the world's largest natural gas producer. Nearly 80% of total Russian production comes from three West Siberian enterprises of RAO Gazprom, Russia's monopolistic gas company. These gas fields are among the largest in the world and lie astride or just north of...
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Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
1999
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.44990 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/297936 |
| Summary: | For many years Russia has been the world's largest natural gas producer. Nearly 80% of total Russian production comes from three West Siberian enterprises of RAO Gazprom, Russia's monopolistic gas company. These gas fields are among the largest in the world and lie astride or just north of the Arctic Circle in the Nadym-Pur-Taz gas production complex (located in the Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous District of Tyumenskaya Oblast'), several thousand kilometres from the major markets in the industrial regions of European Russia and in the "near" ( other CIS countries) and "far" ( eastern and western Europe) abroad. The trunk pipelines which supply gas from these fields pass initially through a region of extreme and complex natural-climatic conditions, in particular permafrost, which present an array of problems for gas pipeline planning, construction and operation. Given that Russia depends so much upon the gas industry for hard currency revenues, notably through Gazprom's exports to Europe, and that Russia, the ... |
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