The Shifting Geopolitics of Russia’s Natural Gas Exports and Their Impact on EU-Russia Gas Relations

Sharples, Jack

doi:10.1080/14650045.2016.1148690

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“…For example, our results highlight critical areas such as the Pechora region, the northwestern parts of the Ural Mountains, northwest and central Siberia, the Yakutsk basin (except for the city of Yakutsk in low to moderate hazard area), as well as the central and western parts of Alaska to which high priority for local scale infrastructure hazard assessments should be performed in future decades 1 . The Yamal-Nenets region in northwestern Siberia is important because it is the primary natural gas extraction area in Russia, and accounts for more than one-third of the European Union’s pipeline imports 28 (Fig. 3 ).…”

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Degrading permafrost puts Arctic infrastructure at risk by mid-century

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Degradation of near-surface permafrost can pose a serious threat to the utilization of natural resources, and to the sustainable development of Arctic communities. Here we identify at unprecedentedly high spatial resolution infrastructure hazard areas in the Northern Hemisphere’s permafrost regions under projected climatic changes and quantify fundamental engineering structures at risk by 2050. We show that nearly four million people and 70% of current infrastructure in the permafrost domain are in areas with high potential for thaw of near-surface permafrost. Our results demonstrate that one-third of pan-Arctic infrastructure and 45% of the hydrocarbon extraction fields in the Russian Arctic are in regions where thaw-related ground instability can cause severe damage to the built environment. Alarmingly, these figures are not reduced substantially even if the climate change targets of the Paris Agreement are reached.

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Degrading permafrost puts Arctic infrastructure at risk by mid-century

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“…As Sharples notes, 'The relationship between the Soviet gas industry, with its seemingly limitless gas reserves, and European energy companies, with their technology and willingness to pay hard currency for Soviet gas, paved the way for the development of Soviet gas exports to Europe'. 7 This path dependency continues to the present day. Alternatives to Russian gas, if the EU really sought to divest from Russia, would be expensive and difficult to set up and create new vulnerabilities.…”

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confidence: 88%

EU-Russia Energy Relations in Context

Dannreuther

2016

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“…For Russian companies, the Arctic and offshore are frontiers where they can benefit from partnering with international companies (Aalto 2016). Some deals between the Russian and international companies are in the range of tens of billions of dollars, such as the alliance between ExxonMobil and Rosneft forged in 2011 or the agreement between Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) on gas exports signed in 2014 Sharples 2016). These relationships serve as an important interface between Russia and the world.…”

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confidence: 99%