TY - JOUR

T1 - Key Problems in the Development of the Power of Siberia Project

AU - Kontorovich, A. E.

AU - Eder, L. V.

AU - Filimonova, I. V.

AU - Nikitenko, S. M.

PY - 2018/1/1

Y1 - 2018/1/1

N2 - The article discusses the implementation of the Power of Siberia project in terms of the opportunities for integrated subsoil development, including the creation of gas, petrochemical, oil-and-gas transportation, and helium industries in regions of the Russia’s East. Within the framework of the project, the following tasks have been accomplished: an analysis of the natural gas resource base of Eastern Siberia and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and its extraction; the directions of transport infrastructure development are validated; the key problems, with which the project is associated, are shown; the possibility of implementing a public-private partnership is considered. It is shown that the implementation of the Power of Siberia project faces a number of serious difficulties. So, in particular, neither in Russia nor in the world are there superextensive gas pipelines, by which multicomponent gas would be transported. The intentional reduction in the helium concentration will lead to a sharp rise in the cost of its isolation, which calls into question the entire helium program. In addition, the current concept of developing the gas potential of Eastern Siberia does not envisage the use of the Irkutsk processing cluster, which already has a significant infrastructure for the hydrocarbon raw materials processing, as well as are personnel and production potential, unlike the projected gas processing plant in Amur oblast.

AB - The article discusses the implementation of the Power of Siberia project in terms of the opportunities for integrated subsoil development, including the creation of gas, petrochemical, oil-and-gas transportation, and helium industries in regions of the Russia’s East. Within the framework of the project, the following tasks have been accomplished: an analysis of the natural gas resource base of Eastern Siberia and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and its extraction; the directions of transport infrastructure development are validated; the key problems, with which the project is associated, are shown; the possibility of implementing a public-private partnership is considered. It is shown that the implementation of the Power of Siberia project faces a number of serious difficulties. So, in particular, neither in Russia nor in the world are there superextensive gas pipelines, by which multicomponent gas would be transported. The intentional reduction in the helium concentration will lead to a sharp rise in the cost of its isolation, which calls into question the entire helium program. In addition, the current concept of developing the gas potential of Eastern Siberia does not envisage the use of the Irkutsk processing cluster, which already has a significant infrastructure for the hydrocarbon raw materials processing, as well as are personnel and production potential, unlike the projected gas processing plant in Amur oblast.

KW - condensate gas

KW - Eastern Siberia

KW - gas processing

KW - gas production

KW - gas reserves

KW - integrated subsoil development

KW - Power of Siberia

KW - public-private partnership

KW - state regulation

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85044262338&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1134/S2079970518010057

DO - 10.1134/S2079970518010057

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85044262338

VL - 8

SP - 92

EP - 100

JO - Regional Research of Russia

JF - Regional Research of Russia

SN - 2079-9705

IS - 1

ER -