Preliminary Calculation of the EROI for the Production of Gas in Russia
Open Access
- 29 September 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by MDPI AG in Sustainability
- Vol. 6 (10), 6751-6765
- https://doi.org/10.3390/su6106751
Abstract
Russia is one of the world’s largest producers of energy resources. Production of energy resources in Russia is profitable, both economically and in terms of the energy produced (as measured by EROI). At the present time, Russian oil and gas companies have a policy of energy saving, and data on energy consumption is given in annual reports. Based on these data, we can make the EROI calculation. In 2013, the EROI for the production, transportation and processing of gas for Open joint stock company (OJSC) “Gazprom” was 79:1; for OJSC “NOVATEK”, 76:1; for OJSC “Yakutsk Fuel and Energy Company (YATEC)”, only for production, 116:1. Currently, the situation in the oil and gas industry has come to a point when there is a need for the introduction of an energy audit.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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