Russia's natural gas production and consumption are also second only to the United States in the world, ranking second in the world. The traditional producing areas of Russian natural gas are Tyumen and Ural-Volga river basin in western Siberia. Western Siberia is Russia's largest natural gas producing area, and 90% of Russia's natural gas is produced here.
Ural-Volga oil and gas area is the second largest natural gas producing area in Russia and the largest natural gas producing area in Europe. It has the largest gas field in Europe, orenburg gas field, which has laid several oil and gas pipelines to export oil and gas to Moscow and Eastern European countries. In addition to these two traditional oil and gas producing areas, huge natural gas reserves have also been discovered in krasnoyarskiy kray, Irkutsk and Sakhalin in the Russian Far East.
Since the former Soviet Union, Russia has made full use of its unique natural gas resources and built the largest natural gas pipeline system in the world. This pipeline system not only ensures Russia's natural gas supply, but also exports natural gas to Europe. Among the huge gas pipelines laid in Russia's vast territory, the total length of the main pipeline reaches an astonishing 6.5438+0.6 million kilometers, the branch gas pipeline is 6,000 kilometers, and the gas distribution pipeline is 380,000 kilometers. This scale is unparalleled in the world.
Russia's natural gas is not only to meet domestic demand. Since the Soviet era, even at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union's natural gas supply to Europe has not been interrupted. Now more than one-third of Europe's natural gas demand comes from Russia. Of course, natural gas exports have always been an important source of foreign exchange income for the Soviet Union and Russia.