This paper explores the regional economic impact of mineral resource endowment and offers specific inputs to the debate on the local content requirement (LCR) policy, gaining urgency in modern economic and political environment. Focusing on the experience of the Eastern Siberia the paper...

The article discusses the opportunities and prospects for the development of offshore methane hydrates in Eastern Siberia along the coast of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Conducted by the authors preliminary cost estimate for the construction and operation of underwater complex collection of...

Russia is one of the key players in the Arctic with ambitions to continue development its Arctic oil resources. Nowadays the only fully launched oil and gas offshore project in Russia is the platform Prirazlomnaya, a number of other projects are at the various stages of realization and their...

Against the background of the scarcity of fossil resources and the reduction of the availability of agricultural land, the emergence of climate change and the growth of the world population, it has become necessary to design sustainable and efficient strategies from the point of view of resource...