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.