#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Rosnedra head, Evgeny Petrov, said that the agency sees great potential for mineral reserves on the continental shelf of the Russian Federation and in the Arctic. Now there are many geological “blank spots” in these territories; only 10–20 percent of the potential has been explored.
“This is a resource base not even for the next 20–50 years, but much longer. It’s not just oil and gas. We’re already seeing iron-manganese nodules in the Arctic ocean that we haven’t assessed at all yet”, he said. “These are our Far Eastern seas. This is a potential that we have not yet realized, with which we are not yet working”, TASS quotes the speaker as saying.
Earlier, Rosnedra approved the construction of the first underground oil storage facility in Taimyr. Giant gas and oil fields may be discovered in Taimyr.
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Text: Angelika Stepanova, Photo: Nikolay Shchipko