EASTERN RUSSIA'S RESOURCES TALLIED

Russia's Academy of Sciences has reported new data on estimated hydrocarbon resources and reserves in eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East. Potential gas resources in the area are believed to total about 32 trillion cu m (1.13 quadrillion cu ft). Of this, eastern Siberian "commercial" gas reserves (roughly proved/probable) total 944 billion cu m (33.3 tcf), including 654 billion cu m (23.1 tcf) in Krasnoyarsk territory and 290 bcm (10.2 tcf) in Irkutsk province.

Aug. 2, 1993

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Russia's Academy of Sciences has reported new data on estimated hydrocarbon resources and reserves in eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East.

Potential gas resources in the area are believed to total about 32 trillion cu m (1.13 quadrillion cu ft). Of this, eastern Siberian "commercial" gas reserves (roughly proved/probable) total 944 billion cu m (33.3 tcf), including 654 billion cu m (23.1 tcf) in Krasnoyarsk territory and 290 bcm (10.2 tcf) in Irkutsk province.

Potential Russian Eastern Siberian and far eastern oil resources were placed at more than 8 billion metric tons (58.4 billion bbl) and commercial oil reserves at 313 million tons (2.3 billion bbl), including 133 million tons (971 billion bbl) in Krasnoyarsk Territory and 180 million tons (1.31 billion bbl) in Irkutsk Province.

Potential far eastern gas resources in the Sakha republic (Yakutia) and Sakhalin province were projected at 16.7 trillion cu m (589.5 tcf). Commercial gas reserves in the Sakha republic were estimated at 959 billion cu m (33.9 tcf) and in Sakhalin province at 615 billion cu m (21.7 tcf).

Potential oil resources in the Russian far east were placed at 3.76 billion tons (27.4 billion bbl) and commercial reserves at 324 million tons (2.37 billion bbl).

Russia's commercial far eastern oil reserves included 131 million tons (956 million bbl) in the Sakha republic and 193 million tons (1.41 billion bbl) in Sakhalin province.

The academy emphasized that oil and gas deposits are very unevenly distributed in eastern Siberia and Russia's far east. It said that geological exploration organizations expect to increase commercial hydrocarbon reserves in the region "many fold."