Industrial Gas Potential of the Western Arctic in the Strategic Perspective

Annotation

The state of the mineral resource base of natural gas requires special control, as it is a strategic resource necessary for the sustainable functioning and development of the Russian Federation’s economy, ensuring national security and defense, competitive advantage in foreign trade in hydrocarbons and deep-processing products, and meeting the domestic needs of high-tech sectors of the economy for hydrocarbon raw materials. An analysis of the state of the mineral resource base in terms of the country’s energy and economic security was carried out, and an assessment of natural gas reserves replenishment based on the reproduction coefficient was given. A study was conducted on the level of resource potential and prospects for increasing the mineral resource base of natural gas in the Western Arctic. It has been determined that the requirement for guaranteed gas production necessitates a change in subsoil use strategy. The depletion of profitable Cenomanian deposits in several traditional fields has become an incentive to develop projects for the development of hard-to-recover natural gas reserves — Upper-Cenomanian and deep-lying Neocom-Jurassic and Achimov. It has been concluded that it is necessary to compensate for the depletion of profitable gas reserves in traditional gas production regions, primarily in the Nadym-Purskaya and Pur-Tazovskaya fields, by shifting the raw material base to the Yamal and Gydan regions; development of transit fields in the Kara Sea, Ob, Tazovskaya and Gydanskaya bays; development of complex hydrocarbon deposits within the developed fields of traditional gas production centers.

About authors

Asya A. Shchegolkova, Cand. Sci. (Econ.), Associate Professor, Leading Researcher
szfmgei@mail.ru, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9934-1408
Luzin Institute for Economic Studies — Subdivision of the Federal Research Centre “Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences”, ul. Fersmana, 24a, Apatity, Russia

Keywords

natural gas reserve reproduction, industrial gas-bearing capacity, hard-to-recover reserves, low-pressure gas

DOI

https://doi.org/10.37482/issn2221-2698.2025.61.106

UDC

[338:622.32](985)(045)