Monthly Archives: September 2013
Russian Gas business is in danger
Nowadays there are following world gas market tendencies:
- Decreasing of Russian gas demand in Europe. It is well known that nowdays The USA has activated the shale gas production. The result of this activation is LNG (Liquefied natural gas) purchase decreasing by The USA and LNG moving to Europe. The result of this moving is decreasing of Russian gas demand in Europe. The Russian portion on the European gas market decreased from 25% to 22%. However, European LNG import generally increased to up 22%.
Three problems of the Russian electro-energetic complex
It is possible to mark three most important problems in the Russian electro-energetic complex:
– The substantial wear and tear of equipment;
– The high electrical equipment import volume;
– The imperfection of legislation (in many cases).
The quantity of electrical equipment which has been working more than its exploitation term consists in Russia more than 60%.