Spatial Organization of Gas Resources Development on the Arctic Shelf of the Russian Federation
Being strategic, the Arctic shelf is a region with an extremely low level of exploration. The undiscovered hydrocarbon resources on the Russian Arctic shelf exceed 90%. The long-term development of strategic programs and projects for the development of gas production on the shelf are constrained by...
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Northern Arctic Federal University
2022-12-01
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| description | Being strategic, the Arctic shelf is a region with an extremely low level of exploration. The undiscovered hydrocarbon resources on the Russian Arctic shelf exceed 90%. The long-term development of strategic programs and projects for the development of gas production on the shelf are constrained by insufficient technical accessibility of industrial development, as well as the difficulty of assessing the actual volume of initial potential oil and gas resources. The reproduction of free gas reserves has been assessed, the level of parity between production and growth of explored reserves has been determined. The state of the gas resources of the Arctic shelf was studied taking into account localization in oil and gas regions, which allowed to make a conclusion about the degree of exploration of the resource base and to identify the basis for the gas potential. The factors restraining the development of offshore projects were identified and analyzed. It was determined that offshore projects should be presented to investors with more attractive operational, technological and economic indicators than alternative onshore projects. The lack of tested methods for the development of hydrocarbons at superdeep depths under severe ice conditions does not allow to fully assessing the economic efficiency of offshore gas projects in the Arctic. It is concluded that within the resource base of Arctic offshore fields, it is necessary to allocate the static (probabilistic) potential of hydrocarbon resources of the Arctic region. The need to transform the Arctic foreign policy is identified. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-829ab5a461eb48a0b4d6944b7273290b2023-02-01T10:13:19ZengNorthern Arctic Federal UniversityАрктика и Север2221-26982022-12-014949748910.37482/issn2221-2698.2022.49.86Spatial Organization of Gas Resources Development on the Arctic Shelf of the Russian Federation Asya A. Shchegolkova 0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9934-1408Luzin Institute for Economic Studies — Subdivision of the Federal Research Centre “Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences”Being strategic, the Arctic shelf is a region with an extremely low level of exploration. The undiscovered hydrocarbon resources on the Russian Arctic shelf exceed 90%. The long-term development of strategic programs and projects for the development of gas production on the shelf are constrained by insufficient technical accessibility of industrial development, as well as the difficulty of assessing the actual volume of initial potential oil and gas resources. The reproduction of free gas reserves has been assessed, the level of parity between production and growth of explored reserves has been determined. The state of the gas resources of the Arctic shelf was studied taking into account localization in oil and gas regions, which allowed to make a conclusion about the degree of exploration of the resource base and to identify the basis for the gas potential. The factors restraining the development of offshore projects were identified and analyzed. It was determined that offshore projects should be presented to investors with more attractive operational, technological and economic indicators than alternative onshore projects. The lack of tested methods for the development of hydrocarbons at superdeep depths under severe ice conditions does not allow to fully assessing the economic efficiency of offshore gas projects in the Arctic. It is concluded that within the resource base of Arctic offshore fields, it is necessary to allocate the static (probabilistic) potential of hydrocarbon resources of the Arctic region. The need to transform the Arctic foreign policy is identified.http://www.arcticandnorth.ru/en/article_index_years.php?ELEMENT_ID=375235reproduction of natural gas reservesoil and gas fields of the russian arctic shelfproductivity of depositprobabilistic potential of natural gas |
| spellingShingle | Asya A. Shchegolkova Spatial Organization of Gas Resources Development on the Arctic Shelf of the Russian Federation Арктика и Север reproduction of natural gas reserves oil and gas fields of the russian arctic shelf productivity of deposit probabilistic potential of natural gas |
| title | Spatial Organization of Gas Resources Development on the Arctic Shelf of the Russian Federation |
| title_full | Spatial Organization of Gas Resources Development on the Arctic Shelf of the Russian Federation |
| title_fullStr | Spatial Organization of Gas Resources Development on the Arctic Shelf of the Russian Federation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Spatial Organization of Gas Resources Development on the Arctic Shelf of the Russian Federation |
| title_short | Spatial Organization of Gas Resources Development on the Arctic Shelf of the Russian Federation |
| title_sort | spatial organization of gas resources development on the arctic shelf of the russian federation |
| topic | reproduction of natural gas reserves oil and gas fields of the russian arctic shelf productivity of deposit probabilistic potential of natural gas |
| url | http://www.arcticandnorth.ru/en/article_index_years.php?ELEMENT_ID=375235 |
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