WHAT DETERMINES THE WELL-BEING OF THE DOMESTIC GAS INDUSTRY TODAY?

Abstract

This article presents the results of the analysis of the economic state of the domestic gas industry, including the activities of the flagship of the country’s fuel and energy complex, the Public Joint Stock Company Gazprom Group of Companies. The authors consider the problems of reorientation of gas raw material exports to the East, issues of creating a liquefied natural gas complex, an icebreaker fleet for transporting LNG to old and new areas and sales points. Another issue under consideration are the difficulties of implementing the state target program of social gasification and pre-gasification of Russian territories. A separate long-term problem is the search for methods of circumventing sanctions and restrictions from the collective West against sectors of the Russian economy. The purpose of this study is a comprehensive assessment of the implementation of state programs for regional development based on the industrial use of hydrocarbon raw materials, including the social gasification / pre-gasification program in the constituent entities of the Federation. Research tools used in this study include activity comparativism, formal logic and expert assessments as well as methods of economic statistics and financial analysis. The research results obtained by the authors of the article include both technical, economic and financial analysis of the departmental non-public information on the discovered problems of the gas industry and possible ways of overcoming the difficulties of geopolitical instability through geographical reorientation of export opportunities of the gas industry. The research materials are supported by calculations, tabular and graphical constructions. The conceptual approaches to the study involved, the prospects of the gas industry moving East, were a subject of cross-discussion. The article concludes with three brief conclusions.