According to a report by Taiwan's China Times News Network, citing Russia's TASS news agency. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak claimed that Russia and China will soon sign the Siberia-2 energy contract.
According to Novak's statement, the construction of the Sino-Russian Siberian-2 line is finally about to begin after a 10-year delay.
According to Novak, the Siberian No. 2 line runs from the Yamal Peninsula in Tyumen region of Russia through Mongolia to eastern China, with an annual gas transport capacity of 50 billion cubic meters.
Originally, most of the natural gas sent by Russia to Europe was natural gas on the Yamar Peninsula, but now the Nord Stream pipelines in the direction of Europe have been blown up, and part of the gas has been burned in vain. It is said that the gas burned reaches 10 million US dollars a day, and if the natural gas is extracted, it cannot be stopped, otherwise it will be burned in vain.
The circle in the picture is the Yamal Peninsula
In addition to burning the gas from Russia's Yamal gas field, Russia has its own LNG liquefied natural ship, and has also built a large gas-chemical plant in Yamal.
If Siberian Power 2 comes out of the Yamal Peninsula and passes thousands of miles to Mongolia, and then from Mongolia it is transported to eastern China. The original contract was for 30 years with a total value of $400 billion.
This pipeline has been completed, and all oil and gas pipelines in Russia have been completed. Gas from Europe can be transported to Asia, and gas from Asia can be transported to Europe.
Two days ago, Kazakhstan's ambassador to Russia Abayev said that Russia is planning to build a line through Kazakhstan to China's Xinjiang and connect to the west to send gas to the east. The annual gas transmission capacity is 55 billion cubic meters. And the beginning of this line is also the Yamal Peninsula, which is illogical. Although the Yamal Peninsula is Russia's largest gas field, there is no need to build two pipelines to China.
The maximum annual transmission of natural gas by Power of Siberia 1 is set at 38 billion cubic meters, and it is currently only 22 billion cubic meters, which has not yet reached its peak. The Power of Siberia 1 has two separate routes, one on Sakhalin Island and the other on Irkutsk on the shores of Lake Baikal, and the two pipelines converge in Boli to Daqing.
And the words released by Abayev are, in my opinion, meant to pressure Mongolia. Mongolia is sandwiched between two major powers, China and Russia, and has been a partner of NATO since 2003. It also took part in NATO joint military exercises. The search for a third neighbor has been going on for years.
However, Mongolia also has to accept the reality that Mongolia is a landlocked country sandwiched between China and Russia, and has to consider the feelings of China and Russia.
The pipeline is slightly closer to Mongolia than Kazakhstan and reaches eastern China. All things considered, it's safer to go to the Mongolian side.