Zhidkoye zoloto? Environmental Aspects of Natural Gas Transportation from the Sakha Republic ...

• Main Author: Seligman, Benjamin
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository 1994
• Subjects: Sakha Republic; Gas pipelines; Liquified Natural Gas supply
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.79288; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/331838

The Sakha Republic, Russia’s largest administrative unit, could in ten years time be well on its way to becoming a major source of natural gas for a number of Pacific Rim nations, where demand for LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) is growing rapidly. Already, Japanese and South Korean consortia are engaged in pre-feasibility studies for a trans-continental gas pipeline linking the Sakha gas fields with the Korean peninsula and Honshu. This pipeline will be faced not only with political obstacles, such as those evident within Russia and on the Korean peninsula, but also a wide variety of constraints imposed by regional environmental peculiarities. These would create special problems for a long-distance gas pipeline. The environmental implications are far reaching. The West Siberian oil and gas region has suffered severe environmental damage caused by the undesirable interactions between pipelines and the surrounding environment. Pipeline construction activities have also contributed to the overall situation. In ...