Energy Policy in the Arctic: Yamal LNG in Russian International and domestic political agenda
peer reviewed The past decade the Russian oil and gas industry has been marked by ambitious projects. The plant producing liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the Yamal peninsula became the first Russia’s project in the Arctic of such complexity and scale. Said to be a matter of strategic importance by th...
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ftorbi:oai:orbi.ulg.ac.be:2268/257784 2024-10-13T14:04:21+00:00 Energy Policy in the Arctic: Yamal LNG in Russian International and domestic political agenda Lavrenteva, Nina Center for International Relations Studies 2020 https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/257784 https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/257784/1/PoPuPS%c2%a0_%c2%a0Energy%20Policy%20in%20the%20Arctic_%20Yamal%20LNG%20in%20Russian%20International%20and%20domestic%20political%20agenda.pdf https://doi.org/10.25518/2593-9483.137 en eng https://popups.uliege.be/2593-9483/index.php?id=137 urn:issn:2593-9483 urn:issn:2736-402X https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/257784 info:hdl:2268/257784 https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/257784/1/PoPuPS%c2%a0_%c2%a0Energy%20Policy%20in%20the%20Arctic_%20Yamal%20LNG%20in%20Russian%20International%20and%20domestic%20political%20agenda.pdf open access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess The Journal of Cross-Regional Dialogues/La Revue de dialogues inter-régionaux (2020 Special Issue) (2020) Russian energy policy LNG Yamal LNG Arctic energy resources Law criminology & political science Political science public administration & international relations Droit criminologie & sciences politiques Sciences politiques administration publique & relations internationales journal article http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 info:eu-repo/semantics/article peer reviewed 2020 ftorbi https://doi.org/10.25518/2593-9483.137 2024-09-27T07:01:33Z peer reviewed The past decade the Russian oil and gas industry has been marked by ambitious projects. The plant producing liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the Yamal peninsula became the first Russia’s project in the Arctic of such complexity and scale. Said to be a matter of strategic importance by the Russian government, it fits well into its larger perspective of the development of the Arctic and the Northern Sea Route. However, it became evident that it would be impossible to implement Yamal LNG without the support of either European or Asian stakeholders – it heavily relies on foreign technology and funding. Especially after the 2014 Western sanctions, the project’s attention pivoted to the East: it was able to secure the missing funding and launch the production. The paper outlines the characteristics of the project, analyses its role in the international and domestic political agenda in Russia, and suggests that even though the hydrocarbons exploitation in the Arctic and LNG projects play an important role in regards to the wider international agenda of Russia’s Arctic policy, Yamal LNG had a bigger impact on the domestic politics and internal natural gas market than on the country’s external energy relations. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Northern Sea Route Yamal Peninsula University of Liège: ORBi (Open Repository and Bibliography) Arctic Yamal Peninsula ENVELOPE(69.873,69.873,70.816,70.816) |
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peer reviewed The past decade the Russian oil and gas industry has been marked by ambitious projects. The plant producing liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the Yamal peninsula became the first Russia’s project in the Arctic of such complexity and scale. Said to be a matter of strategic importance by the Russian government, it fits well into its larger perspective of the development of the Arctic and the Northern Sea Route. However, it became evident that it would be impossible to implement Yamal LNG without the support of either European or Asian stakeholders – it heavily relies on foreign technology and funding. Especially after the 2014 Western sanctions, the project’s attention pivoted to the East: it was able to secure the missing funding and launch the production. The paper outlines the characteristics of the project, analyses its role in the international and domestic political agenda in Russia, and suggests that even though the hydrocarbons exploitation in the Arctic and LNG projects play an important role in regards to the wider international agenda of Russia’s Arctic policy, Yamal LNG had a bigger impact on the domestic politics and internal natural gas market than on the country’s external energy relations. |
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Energy Policy in the Arctic: Yamal LNG in Russian International and domestic political agenda |
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Energy Policy in the Arctic: Yamal LNG in Russian International and domestic political agenda |
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Energy Policy in the Arctic: Yamal LNG in Russian International and domestic political agenda |
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Energy Policy in the Arctic: Yamal LNG in Russian International and domestic political agenda |
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Energy Policy in the Arctic: Yamal LNG in Russian International and domestic political agenda |
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energy policy in the arctic: yamal lng in russian international and domestic political agenda |
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