NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION AND PIPELINE DELIVERY IN NORTH-EAST ASIAN COUNTRIES IN THE EARLY 21st CENTURY

摘要

Source of Natural Gas Supply: There are rich sedimentary basins which are adequate for production of natural gas in North East Asian countries. Russian Far East region and East Siberia: Sakhalin, Sakha (Yakut), Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk Region. In China, there are Sunliao, Shaan- Gan-Ning (Ordos), Tsaidam, Turphan and Tarim. The potentiality of large gas reserve discoveries is high and there are indeed already discovered, but untapped gas fields: such as Koviktinsk gas field in Irkutsk, Yurubchensk oil and gas field in Krasnoyarsk, and the under development Shaan-Gan-Ning gas field in China.Variant pipeline route: for a gas supply to the large consuming areas in the North East Asian countries, several large pipeline routes are planned: from East Siberia and Far East (Yakut), three Routes: from Irkutsk via Mongolia, China (Beijing) to Tianjin Port., from Irkutsk via Manchuli, Daching, Harbin in China to the Russian Port Zarbino, from Yakut to the East Coast port Vanino, then a variant of this route, via North and South Korea and possibly to Japan. Adding to these, Sakhalin gas pipeline down to the south, Hokkaido, Japan, or through Russian Far East to Chinese three provinces of North East, and possibly Korea and Japan. And another plan of Turkmenistan to Chinese East Coast through Chinese Central Asia and mid-area of China, West to East.Geopolitics of Natural Gas: International gas supply and consumption. Supplier and user's shake hand, long-term contract stability, large financial investment guarantee. All of this depend on the maturity of international political affairs.