THE GAS ALLIANCE PROJECT AND PROSPECTS FOR THE FORMATION OF THE RUSSIA – SOUTH ASIA GAS TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
https://doi.org/10.48137/26870703_2023_21_1_56
Abstract
The article analyzes the prerequisites and main parameters of the so-called «triple gas union» proposed by Russia to the Central Asian republics for joint implementation at the end of 2022. The significance of this large–scale energy project for the key and most promising consumers of natural gas of the Russian Federation and Central Asian states – China and India – is assessed. Separately, the prospect of integration into the future new continental pipeline system of the trans-Afghan TAPI gas pipeline project is being considered.
The ongoing global geoeconomic and geopolitical transformations create a wide field of opportunities for the beginning restructuring of the continental gas transportation system. At the same time, the project of the future «gas union» looks like a large-scale plan for the development of key areas of the Eurasia continent, including the resource and transit potential of Russia and Central Asia.
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About the Author
A. V. Grozin
Institute of the CIS Countries; Institute of Oriental Studies Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Grozin Andrey V., Candidate of historical Sciences, Head of Department of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, Senior Researcher
2/1 Melnikov Ave., Khimki, Moscow region, 141410
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Grozin A.V. THE GAS ALLIANCE PROJECT AND PROSPECTS FOR THE FORMATION OF THE RUSSIA – SOUTH ASIA GAS TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM. Geoeconomics of Energetics. 2023;(1):56-78. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.48137/26870703_2023_21_1_56
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