Russian Natural Gas and Oil from Gazprom

Gazprom is Russia’s main gas company. On its site it has a 38 page document summarizing its oil and natural gas business and that of Russia. This is a summary of key facts in that presentation. When I say gas here I mean natural gas.

Russia has 28% of the World’s gas reserves, 20% of it coal, and 4.6% of its oil.

Gazprom itself has 18% of the World’s gas, and therefore 70% of Russia’s 33.6 trillion cubic meters of gas (tcm).

Gazprom accounts for 75% of the World’s gas production, and also 75% of Russia’s gas production. In 2012 it produced 487 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas.

Its pipelines run 162,000 km (100,000 miles), and consume 42 GigaWatts of pumping power.

After the dissolution of the USSR, the countries contained in that are called the “near abroad” and Putin has declared the region as Russia’s “sphere of influence” (from Wikipedia). They include the Baltic States, the Caucasas, the Central Asia “stans”, and the Central and Eastern Europe Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine.

The “far abroad” or Europe consumed 139 bcm. 76% went to West Europe and Turkey. 24% went to Central Europe. The leading users were Germany at 33 bcm, Turkey at 27 bcm, and Italy at 15 bcm.

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There is a Nord Stream pipeline (completed) under the Baltic Sea that carries 55 bcm. A Blue Stream pipeline goes to Turkey and carries 16 bcm. A South Stream pipeline that goes south of the Ukraine will begin in December of 2015 and will eventually carry 63 bcm.

There are also Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) exports to the Republic of Korea, China, India and southeast Asia.

According to CNN Money, from US EIA data, oil and natural gas earns Russia 70% of its $515 billion in exports. It also provides 52% of Russia’s federal budget. Europe gets 25% of its natural gas from Russia.

About Dennis SILVERMAN

I am a retired Professor of Physics and Astronomy at U C Irvine. For two decades I have been active in learning about energy and the environment, and in reporting on those topics for a decade. For the last four years I have added science policy. Lately, I have been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic of our times.
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