US deprives Russia of access to huge oil reserves

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Due to US sanctions, Russia is losing access to most of its oil reserves. We are all used to the idea that our country has enormous hydrocarbon reserves and is one of the largest producers of “black gold” in the world. Nobody attacked us, and did not take away the deposits. That's right, Russia has a huge pantry of all kinds of natural resources, but the United States is simply trying to take the key to it from us.


While everything does not look so bad, oil prices are high and its production is growing. But the problem is that today, domestic oil workers squeeze to dryness the existing fields of Western Siberia, the production of which is falling year by year. If the trend persists in less than two decades, our country will completely disappear from the world oil market, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia recently announced.



But what about the resources of Eastern Siberia and the continental shelf of the Arctic, about which everyone has heard?

Yes, the oil and gas reserves in them are huge, according to some estimates, only $ 20 trillion of hydrocarbons are stored in the Arctic shelf. However, they require huge investments in their development, as well as very special of technologies booty. Which we don’t have.
Vasily Bogoyavlensky, professor at the Petroleum Institute, claims that up to 80% of all equipment on offshore oil platforms is imported, because the result of the sanctions is logical:

Russia really found itself in such a situation when it became impossible to develop offshore fields, especially those located in the Arctic.


Western sanctions left domestic oil oligarchs without high-tech drilling in the difficult conditions of the continental shelf of the Arctic. It would seem that it is time for Russian oil companies to develop their own technologies in the framework of import substitution. Vladimir Mironov, an expert at the Higher School economics, comments on “achievements” in this area:

The share of fundamentally new developments fell from 30% in 2011 to zero in 2016. This primarily concerns the production of platforms for drilling and offshore production.


Instead of developing Russian sophisticated drilling technologies, our oligarchs de facto even turned down attempts to develop an appropriate technological base. They simply squeeze the most out of what is already available. Dmitry Kobylkin, head of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation, assesses the prospects for developing the shelf in this way:

Things aren’t going well. Given the general, not very good external situation in relation to Russia, it is impossible, of course, to hope that the issue will be resolved in the near future.


The question is, what is the use of all these fields, if the Russian oil oligarchs have nothing to develop them and there is nothing? However, a quick businessman will always be able to find his own benefit. we already toldthat Rosneft is considering engaging the Rockefeller Shell for oil development in Eastern Siberia as senior partners with the transfer of a controlling stake to an American company. It will not be surprising if, in the depths of the Arctic, inaccessible to our oligarchs, as a result, the same fate befell.
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  1. +4
    8 November 2018 17: 58
    until the thunder strikes, the peasant doesn’t baptize. Liberal forecasters do not know how to do this. They will take their time and push it until it’s profitable for everyone to buy anything — because purchases are a bonanza. So they steal, no one bargains properly, degreasing the supplier dry so that he doesn’t get profit except for the accepted rate. And I do it cunningly steal from the profit. and for the buyer .. everyone is happy. The state, and what is it? Homeland? and this is what .. we aren’t such, such a life, that’s how they think about it. First, I’ll fill my pocket so as not to worry about myself and my close years, such a 500, and then for the people I’ll start, but how, this holy people ..
    the spaniel complex at the same time, if not stopped, will die from gluttony .. will eat while there is something to eat
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  2. +7
    8 November 2018 19: 23
    Who wrote this nonsense, and professors need to be stripped of their title for not knowing the situation on the equipment market. Today, there are dozens of manufacturers of equipment for oil and gas production in Russia and hundreds abroad. This article eloquently speaks of the knowledge gap in this area.
    1. +1
      9 November 2018 09: 04
      ..and professors need ....

      It may well be that the professor is not aware that he said something like that. lol And if he did, it wasn’t so or the phrase was taken out of context. Anyway, the character can be fictional.
  3. +1
    9 November 2018 00: 21
    Dokanali, oil oligarchs. And where did the government look? After all, there were government representatives in each company, what did they do?
  4. +2
    9 November 2018 05: 28
    Instead of wasting money, they would organize a state program for the production of necessary equipment.
  5. +2
    9 November 2018 06: 05
    I have a friend in the oil industry at a power plant: obscene covers all this imported coal. Expensive in acquisition, in maintenance, unfinished, ill-conceived, etc. Our employees have to finish many things on their own. Import substitution Ave!
    1. 0
      4 December 2018 11: 27
      I completely agree - how many spare parts I have already rearranged for myself in a BMW from Lada viburnum, I would have known it would have been better if I had taken a fret, damn it. Totally, totally agree. And my friends also think, too, with foreign cars namayalsya. I propose to generally close the production and consumption cycle on myself. I somehow saw a drawing - a man in a gas mask, and a pipe from a gas mask stuck in his ass! Itself produces, it consumes and purifies itself! A? That's where the scientific thought is! This is right, the person does not depend on anything and on anyone!
  6. +1
    9 November 2018 06: 05
    Quote: Sergey Minin_2
    Today, there are dozens of manufacturers of equipment for oil and gas production in Russia and hundreds abroad.

    Why are you writing nonsense on foreign manufacturers? What is the essence of sanctions?
    And among domestic drilling platforms for the Arctic, how many are involved, announce the whole list?
  7. +1
    9 November 2018 08: 58
    The article is another set of fictions and conjectures, and simply outright stupidities. Not once refuted.
    In the title:
    US deprives Russia ...

    In the text:
    ... the US is just trying to take away from us ...

    The author should first decide for himself. So we are being deprived, are they trying or already deprived?
    The main and traditional argument of the article for the liberal public is that there is no foreign investment, which means there is no development.
    And how did the USSR develop, at times being in severe isolation?
    The liberal public cannot (or does not want) to understand that Russia is a self-sufficient country. Able to develop without foreign "help". Moreover, this "aid" often comes down to a banal plunder of the country.
    1. +1
      9 November 2018 10: 44
      Quote: gorbunov.vladisl
      that Russia is a self-sufficient country

      it is right...
    2. 0
      11 November 2018 04: 06
      Dear, have you ever asked yourself the question: "Why have so many enterprises already closed, while others are at the closing stage?" Did it not reach you that Russia was being lowered into .... for her "jokes"?
    3. -1
      4 December 2018 14: 45
      Comrade, if you use "liberal" to the right and to the left, then designate yourself, like, but for us, the totalitarian public, all this is unacceptable, we are for .... (and further thought), otherwise you smear snot.
  8. +1
    9 November 2018 10: 42
    our non-sovereign country, which sells its oil and gas for green paper and stores the same paper again in the homeland of the printing press, and the people always remain impoverished, imagine for the time being the most important thing is the INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL, which we have left from the USSR and which Putin associates with all their might destroys.
    So we can quite make ourselves ALL equipment for oil and gas production, this is the first thing, but the question is, why? Then, what would we exchange our wealth for green paper and feed the fat cattle here and there? We do not need this stupid "world trade" for dollars and not even for dollars, we can do EVERYTHING ourselves and machines and oil equipment, and space and even information. They prevent us from living normally and impose this bad way of life when everything is bought and everything It is necessary to get away from this, but first you need to come to an understanding of it.
    1. 0
      11 November 2018 04: 03
      Galar, for this not so beloved paper you exist and eat something else. Russian industry without the West will simply rise. So do not spit in the well, then you will receive from it .....
  9. +2
    9 November 2018 12: 36
    It seems to me so far we will have such traitors in the law as Chubais and co., We should not talk about any domestic technologies !!!! The USSR itself quietly produced its own oil, and now we are being brought to its knees forbidding the development of our own production technologies.
  10. 0
    9 November 2018 23: 37
    Hey you ! Do you have something from oil or gas? Professors failed! Wise guys! Because of you, all this happens!
  11. -1
    9 November 2018 23: 39
    Children sick because of you can not be cured!
  12. -1
    9 November 2018 23: 41
    Better to destroy you! You vote for hell!
  13. +1
    10 November 2018 08: 35
    Again, the liberals howl about the fact that "... the boss is gone ..."! The fifth column is awake ...
  14. -2
    11 November 2018 04: 01
    Knowing the history of industrial development in Russia, NOTHING WILL BE OBTAINED FROM IT, unless it is stolen from anyone, but for use equipment is needed that does not and will not, because for him, too, need to steal documentation. So, dear Russians, calm down and get ready for the worst, no matter how your officials and government and Putin sing.
    1. +2
      12 November 2018 07: 47
      They steal everything who is less who is more. Most of all, the Chinese steal intellectual property. Russia in this area has lagged behind because they steal from it. They steal everything from Russia and everything. They steal the bowels, brains, money, forests ...
      1. 0
        14 November 2018 12: 36
        Apparently your brains have stolen for a long time or they themselves left, which is most likely.
  15. 0
    12 November 2018 06: 09
    Quote: gorbunov.vladisl
    The author should first decide for himself. So we are being deprived, are they trying or already deprived?

    Do not teach others to do their work.
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  17. 0
    14 November 2018 12: 35
    This nonsense was written by a person who does not understand and certainly does not know the state of affairs in the industry.
  18. +1
    23 November 2018 02: 00
    Complete nonsense! The domestic oil production platform Prirazlomnaya has successfully survived three winters and is already producing and loading black gold. Other achievements of Russian engineers include the Berkut and Orlan offshore oil production platforms, which were put into operation relatively recently. They are distinguished by the ability to withstand the lowest temperatures and severe seismic vibrations, as well as minimal sensitivity to giant ice floes and waves.

    As for future projects, it is worth mentioning the joint venture of the Lukoil company and the factories of the Kaliningrad region. Oil industry workers plan to install five drilling rigs in the local sea at a distance tens of kilometers from the coast. The preliminary investment should be about 140 billion rubles. The equipment will be created at Kaliningrad machine-building plants.
  19. 0
    29 November 2018 21: 12
    The question is, what is the use of all these fields, if the Russian oil oligarchs have nothing to develop them and there is nothing?

    Respect to Sergey Marzhetsky! Finally, they raised a huge problem: our oligarchy doesn’t invest in anything, it just rakes out what the old equipment, which often existed at the time of the acquisition, can bring its equipment, it is a fact! I am constantly touched by our successes in the development of weapons, so I am completely incomprehensible to our helplessness in the development of hydrocarbon production methods! Nonsense! What, no specialists? Surely there is! No prospects? Surely huge! what is the problem? In my opinion, the only problem is that our western-fed hand guides have found a way to launch on our market and subsequently give it up to their owners, motivating it with everything-is-gone-is-all-will-stand-up-if-it’s not going to be- booty !!! If I’m not mistaken, Bismarck said: if you don’t understand what the matter is, it means money! The overwhelming majority of our oligarchs are accustomed to only take without investing anything, therefore there is a great way to return hydrocarbon production to the state by announcing the period during which the necessary technologies should be developed and implemented. Well, the state research institute should set the corresponding task. In this way, the sheep are fed up, the wolves howl, or put their money in and the prey gets better, or the state does everything, which is much more profitable for him! Liberastov please do not get excited proving that private property is more effective for the country! hi
    1. 0
      5 December 2018 17: 07
      I see, the totalitarian people in your face are really excited :) Relax, I’ll tell you a fairy tale about Lefty, and you will make a conclusion. In general, Russia and England lived together, and England supplied fleas to Russia, and not just ordinary ones, but oil producers, let’s say so. Well, then they somehow messed up, whether ours in England, I apologize, ruined the air. In general, because of the smelly gas, England was offended and that's it. And oil production must be expanded, fleas of oil production overhaul require again. Next, remember: In general, the nose was wiped out, the fleas were horseshoe, only even what else worked, stopped working. Therefore, I propose that the Ministry of Defense participate in the development of oil mines, the rocket is simply not pulled into the air, but into the ground, previously connected to a hose. Here I only fear that the oil layers would not catch fire, while the rocket at the back says hellish fire flies, so the Ministry of Emergencies also needs to be connected to the process. Well, in garlic, do you have Lukoil shares? Oh yes, Lukoil is a private office. Can Rosneft give you silver spoons every new year? Well, where are the ports and fingers spread, dear?
  20. +1
    30 November 2018 12: 21
    But Forbes, with reference to the Financial Times, writes other information on this. That oil production grew by 13% from 16 to 6 years, Rosneft invested 12 billion rubles in the development of the Arctic shelf from the 100th year, and from 17 to 21, the investments will grow to 250 billion rubles, and prospecting mines will be drilled in the 21st year the Laptev, Barents and Kara seas. And here is a quote:

    The work of Russian oil and gas companies in the Arctic shows that they were able to survive during the period of sanctions and are developing complex offshore projects, in particular, in one of the most inaccessible regions - in the Far North, using high technology in drilling. They found a way to adapt to circumstances and stay competitive.

    - writes the Financial Times.

    And so on in the same vein. Of course the article is from April 17th. Perhaps everything has changed a lot since then, the oligarchs, who have been extracting oil for so many years, have all lost their minds, pump up the rest and are not invested in development.
  21. 0
    30 November 2018 12: 26
    Quote: UralRep
    Do not teach others to do their work.

    Why, if this is nonsense and hack, and not work? It is unclear whose opinion is presented as a fact. What kind of "Oil Institute" (there is the Russian State University of Oil and Gas, is it he means or not)? Give the numbers, how much of what is left, how funding is falling, production volumes are falling, etc.
  22. +1
    30 November 2018 12: 43
    And the moment is not yet clear: if Russia is deprived of oil, they impose sanctions against companies cooperating with Russia in the field of oil production, because of this technology is not available to us, how will Rosneft attract Shell for development? We started with the fact that everything is bad, sanctions are against us, and we finished that it is even worse - we will give a controlling stake to the American company. I am not special, a simple layman, I can be mistaken of course, but much of the article is not clear to me.