ENSURING REGIONAL PRESENCE OF RUSSIA IN THE ARCTIC BASED ON REPRODUCTION OF THE NATURAL GAS RESERVES AND RESOURCES

The article resolves one of the main tasks of geopolitics and geo‑economics — ensuring national energy security. The problem of preserving parity between the extraction and reproduction of hydrocarbons in the context of modernization of the Arctic gas and industrial complex is analyze, the main trends in the formation of its infrastructure are consistently analyzed. The assessment of the Yamal oil and gas center is given from the position of reproduction of natural gas. The prospects for development of deposits of the Yamal hydrocarbon region as an important factor in the socio‑economic development of Russia are explored. Modernization of transport infrastructure and communications is an important component in the process of developing the region. Spatial characteristics of fields of the Yamal hydrocarbon region, placement and development of productive forces are investigated. Analysis of the fields of the Yamal hydrocarbon region is conducted taking into account the division into two zones ‑ pipeline transportation and liquefied natural gas. Technologies of development of fields and transportation of liquefied natural gas are analyzed. The problems of natural gas transportation from the Yamal Peninsula using the gas pipelines: Nord Stream, Ukhta — Torzhok and Gryazovets — Vyborg are studied. Fight for control over resources, first of all hydrocarbons, is gradually transferred to the Arctic. The possibility of strengthening of the regional presence of Russia in the Arctic on the basis of development of natural gas fields is shown.

The Russian Arctic, arctic deposits, natural gas, reproduction of reserves of natural gas, Yamal oil‑and‑gas center, Arctic pipeline transport, liquefied natural gas, gas transportation infrastructure, LNG production, Northern Sea Route.

Shchegol’kova A. A. Ensuring regional presence of Russia in the Arctic based on reproduction of the natural gas reserves and resources. Business. Education. Law, 2019, no. 2, pp. 212–216. DOI: 10.25683/VOLBI.2019.47.275.