Refusal of Russian gas: China is preparing an energy revolution

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The success of the so-called “shale revolution” in the United States has changed the balance of power in world energy. States from the importer of "blue fuel" have become its exporter. The whole world is watching how Washington is trying to “squeeze” Gazprom’s share of the European gas market, putting obstacles to Nord Stream-2.





The Russian authorities are hastily building their own LNG plants in order to manage to occupy a niche in the growing Chinese gas market. The Kremlin plans to build the Power of Siberia-2 pipeline. The problem is that a new super-player will soon come to the world energy market, which will cover all this fuss of the USA and Russia with a “copper basin”.

It's about China. Yes, today he, like the United States at one time, is the largest importer of energy resources. Beijing made a strategic decision to abandon the use of environmentally harmful coal and switched to "blue fuel". Demand for gas in China is great both in winter and in summer. It is not surprising that today, American industrialists prefer to ship their LNG not to Europe, but to Asia. Interestingly, the Chinese even in Europe manage to outbid LNG tankers and redirect them to their homes.

But soon everything can change in the most dramatic way. The fact is that China is the owner of the largest reserves of shale gas in the world. For comparison, they are twice as many as Australia and the USA combined, about 31,6 trillion cubic meters. The only problem is extraction. Most of the shales are located at a depth of 3,5 kilometers in the province of Sichuan. Shale gas production in the United States doesn’t help here, because there are no pumps and pipes of similar strength that can withstand incredible pressure. In addition, this method is unacceptable due to the banal water shortage.

In the USA, the “shale revolution” has developed due to the extremely successful combination of several factors. In the PRC, the situation is different and you cannot help the matter by simply copying American experience. Russian expert Igor Yushkov explains:

Chinese technological the revolution should be the invention of a method of anhydrous shale gas production. Now there is no such technology.


Or is there already? The Chinese edition of the South China Morning Post reported that decades of scientists have been successful, and Beijing has finally received its own shale gas production technology. The developers called it the "energy core." The bottom line is that instead of hitting a liquid under high pressure, deep rocks should burst from shock waves generated by powerful electric currents. Water is not used. The head of the project, Professor Zhang Yongming, explains:

The shock wave generated by the device can reach 200 megapascals, which is expected to lead to the formation of a fault zone with a diameter of up to 50 meters.


The discovery is a breakthrough, but it will still need to be worked out in practice. Scientists note that the "energy core" will be much more environmentally friendly than the American fracturing technology. It will also be necessary to assess the risks for earthquake resistance in Sichuan.

What will happen if the bold forecasts of Chinese scientists come true? By 2030, Beijing intends to increase its own shale gas production to 100 billion cubic meters. The global energy market will be completely redrawn. All American, Qatari, Australian, and Russian projects focused on selling LNG to China will become unprofitable. About the "Power of Siberia-2" can be forgotten.

And this is not so bad. What if China decides to become a gas exporter?
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  1. +1
    31 January 2019 17: 22
    It would be nice if the Chinese did it! Maybe for us then the government will lower gas prices. Well, the Chinese, show that you can not only copy!
    1. +1
      31 January 2019 19: 56
      It would be nice if the Chinese did

      The extraction of shale gas will lead to the movement of earth formations. The US has already dug a hole for itself. You need to wait a bit when they crash there. China is next in turn.
    2. +7
      1 February 2019 06: 44
      On the contrary, prices will be increased to compensate for losses.
      Everything is like with gas prices.
    3. -1
      2 February 2019 02: 32
      ... for us, then, the government will lower gas prices.

      Considering how YOU handle this gas (recent incidents with gas) I would completely forbid gas for YOU.
  2. +4
    1 February 2019 07: 04
    Another horror story! The world is not simply not constant, it is contradictory, because the interests of peoples are contradictory, not to mention the interests of individuals. Dialectical materialism proceeds from the fact that the resolution of contradictions is a source of development. Being determines consciousness, it changes in time, which means that people's interests are not constant. An attempt by the Anglo-Saxons to build a unipolar world is bursting at the seams. Gas, like oil, is not eternal and you need to be constantly prepared for this. Problems with fresh water and food are growing - they can also lead to radical changes. We must be able to learn from life, quickly make strategic decisions and implement them. Nobody promises blissful peace.
  3. -2
    1 February 2019 09: 50
    -Well and ... scream ...
    - Yes .., China may refuse Russian gas ... and Russian oil ... and Russian forest ... and Russian drinking water ... -But only for the reason .. that ... that ... that ... he himself will become the owner and owner of all these Russian mineral resources and wealth ... -Just he will take it all from Russia and will own and use all this himself ...
    -There the site's crucians (and maybe latent Chinese) constantly write .. what ... what ... what .., supposedly the Chinese do not want to live in the cold eastern regions of Russia ... -For them ... supposedly there " not the climate "... -But in the southern hot waterless regions of China (where the scorching heat and only sand) ... -for the Chinese to live ... -this is" the very thing ".... -And that all the Chinese are just like that and dream ... - to get into these lifeless hot and waterless regions of China ...
    -Maybe someone believes in all this nonsense ... but the Russian fresh drinking water has already poured into the Chinese directly in the mouth ..., past the Russian mouth ...
    -It is interesting ... -and then where will our Karasik-idealist-Sinists swim after many places in Russia suddenly become shallow overnight ... -lead, and they are used to a lot of good fresh water ... -Or they also dream to get there into a frying pan of hot Chinese deserts ... -Hahah ...
    1. +2
      2 February 2019 04: 23
      Irina, even Avicenna pointed out the constitutional features of peoples. So there is truth in the fact that not very Chinese people will rush to Siberia. It's not their climate. Managing Chinese companies may come to Siberia, and yet Siberians will live and work in Siberia from Russians who have undergone selection for health through many generations of ancestors and who managed to survive there, and the indigenous peoples of Siberia, whom their genetics dictates life in the north, where there is a reduced load of allergens and a long winter with clean air and low microbial load. But in warmer regions, their immunity will not cope. Look at the Chinese. Constitutionally, they have a weak skeleton, not powerful muscles. They are yin. Siberia is not for them. I currently live and work in the North of the USA. The number of Chinese in the United States is enormous. Every big city in the warm states has Chinatown - an area where Chinese people live crowded. But beyond Boston, there are practically no such Chinese towns. In the state of New Hampshire, where I live, Chinese are rarely seen. But this is far from Siberia. In terms of climate, it is warmer than Belgorod, or even Kiev. But they are cold here. And they don't come here. The cold makes them fear. I asked my Chinese acquaintances. They do not want to live in the north.
  4. 0
    1 February 2019 12: 15
    Quote: oracul
    Another horror story!

    Why horror story? Could this scare you?
  5. +4
    2 February 2019 00: 40
    What pessimism poured from the brains of some couchmen. The Chinese still need to get that gas from the bowels and it is not known when it will be. But indeed, the production of large volumes of shale gas will not do good for the bowels of their country. It is not known what will be better for the Chinese - either to take gas from us, or to produce our own.
  6. +2
    2 February 2019 02: 27
    The Russian authorities are hastily building their own LNG plants in order to manage to occupy a niche in the growing Chinese gas market.

    No words, some expressions ..... fool
    There are not so many alternatives to Russian gas in the world. But for China it is not at all.
    LNG is being built mainly for those where the pipeline cannot be reached. China and I have the largest border. Why make a fuss with LNG. The Chinese can claim anything. This is the style of Asians. Stuff yourself up. Recall the eternal throwing of the Indians when buying weapons from us. They also like to make different conflicting statements. It’s time to get used to it.
    The construction of Power of Siberia is in full swing. There are probably already plans for the next gas pipelines. As soon as the first cubic meters arrive in the Celestial Empire, the gradual and inevitable conquest of the Chinese gas market will begin. good
  7. +1
    2 February 2019 09: 33
    Quote: gorenina91
    -Well and ... scream ...
    - Yes .., China may refuse Russian gas ... and Russian oil ... and Russian forest ... and Russian drinking water ... -But only for the reason .. that ... that ... that ... he himself will become the owner and owner of all these Russian mineral resources and wealth ... -Just he will take it all from Russia and will own and use all this himself ...
    -There the site's crucians (and maybe latent Chinese) constantly write .. what ... what ... what .., supposedly the Chinese do not want to live in the cold eastern regions of Russia ... -For them ... supposedly there " not the climate "... -But in the southern hot waterless regions of China (where the scorching heat and only sand) ... -for the Chinese to live ... -this is" the very thing ".... -And that all the Chinese are just like that and dream ... - to get into these lifeless hot and waterless regions of China ...
    -Maybe someone believes in all this nonsense ... but the Russian fresh drinking water has already poured into the Chinese directly in the mouth ..., past the Russian mouth ...
    -It is interesting ... -and then where will our Karasik-idealist-Sinists swim after many places in Russia suddenly become shallow overnight ... -lead, and they are used to a lot of good fresh water ... -Or they also dream to get there into a frying pan of hot Chinese deserts ... -Hahah ...

    So why, in fact, "Russian fresh water ..." Have you not heard about China's claims to "northern territories? The population of the Russian Federation is becoming impoverished and dying out, contrary to orders from above."
    1. +3
      2 February 2019 11: 33
      -So I am writing about this ...
      -But many site latent Chinese and secret Chinese agents are doing their best .., in order to prove the opposite ....
      -Yes .., the Chinese are sleeping and see ...- how to grab northern and eastern territories from Russia ...
      -But someone is trying hard to prove .. that they say the Chinese are afraid of the cold ... -Hahah ...
      -Probably because of "this fear" the Chinese are rapidly building powerful icebreakers ... instead of summer pleasure yachts ... and other light boats for "tropical time" ...
      - He’s already serving the Russian Northern Way ... -It’s not enough ...
      -And on the site there are also "wise minnows-crucians" .. who persistently talk about eternal friendship with China .., about partnership .., about a strategic military alliance ... and so on ...
      -Russian borders have long been propped up by countless Chinese motorized and tank divisions ... and Russia continues to play tank biathlon with China and invites their troops to its territory to conduct joint military exercises ... so that the Chinese military "get to know" firsthand with our locality ...
      -How to call it all ... -Yes no way ... -this is simply a betrayal of national interests and elementary wrecking ...
    2. 0
      4 February 2019 18: 52
      ... contrary to orders from above

      Why in spite of it? .. Since 1992, the people of Russia are dying out, and in 2018 the population has decreased. Not the Chinese, however, ensured extinction.
  8. 0
    4 February 2019 14: 59
    Quote: gorenina91
    What can I call all this ... - No way ... - it's just a betrayal of national interests and elementary wrecking ...

    And what do you write soobssssno?
    Unfortunately, I didn’t read anything intelligible except for elementary intimidation ... what are you suggesting? Preventive nuclear strike?
    Let us, based on the facts of history, imagine the future?
    And the fact of history, it seems to me, is that the northern peoples, even being poorly organized, successfully opposed the empires of the already established China ... otherwise, the Chinese or nationalities whom they now call the Chinese would have long mastered Siberia ....
  9. 0
    5 February 2019 13: 44
    In general, China is testing several gas production technologies.
    From the bottom of the sea, methane harvesting has already been launched.

    In 5 years we will have time to start serving them?
  10. 0
    5 February 2019 17: 27
    A plagiarist country cannot make a meat grinder with its own mind, and the author writes about some technologies.
    China is a huge puffy fake! One thing is worth it - in the near future this fake will crash, and the recent US economic crisis will seem like a gentle breeze, compared to the China crisis!
    1. +1
      7 February 2019 03: 32
      China is not a fake !!! Fake is now bigger than Europe, even Uncle Sam can’t cope with it ... Brexit, this is not a show, but a simple murder by an impudent boorish son (USA), his ancestor .... Moreover, the attempt to hide behind the neighbors failed !!! Hand over ... And this is just the beginning. And China, the marks of this boorish burned, and now teaches you to dance !!!
  11. 0
    6 February 2019 17: 55
    The Chinese will soon die. From the horrors of contraception. And you too. And the Americans too. And who will be interested then to burn blue fuel.
    Your interest in economics and technology: purely religious. The ancient Egyptians building the pyramids believed that it was important. You believe in gas pipelines. Not. No gas piping will protect you from contraception. No chances. Well, think with your head. That sperm can not break through the silicone barrier. And then the gas pipeline will help him. Open for example china fertility rate on the Internet. She: in 2016 1.62 per woman. And for the simple reproduction of the Chinese, 2.15 per woman is needed. There will be nothing. No Chinese conquest of all. Just die from contraception. Like you and the Americans. However: rational arguments in the case of religious fanatics are ineffective.
  12. +1
    6 February 2019 23: 58
    Why do the Chinese need shale oil? We will give them 3 Siberian Forces, that's enough for everyone!
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  14. 0
    7 February 2019 01: 34
    According to rough forecasts, by 2024, India will overtake China in terms of population. And by 2100 Nigeria will almost catch up with him. To stop wasting money on reproduction, and to drive the failed mothers at the dumping machine at the dumping prices, is not necessary.
    This is attractive only in terms of necrocultures. The CCP set a record for auto genocide: 500 million unborn children at the moment. Brilliant, from the point of view of the necrophilia.
    It’s a pity that Mao didn’t finish Mr. Dan out of natural kindness. Now in a coffin tossing and turning.

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