Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Energy in Russia



Russia is a big country with vast area for developing of energy. Energy plays a very important role in Russian economy and economic sectors: in the industrial, agricultural, commercial, and government sectors.
Natural gas holds a central place in the economy of Russia. Russia has 49 billion cubic meters of gas. It is 35 percent of the world's total. IT is an essential resource for exchange. It brings essential income to the Russian treasury. Therefore the gas companies are the richest.
oil holds the second place. Russia ranks the third place on the petroleum reserves after The USA and Saudi Arabia. Approximately, our country has 8-10 billion tons of oil.
Coal is too very important recourse for Russia. This recourse is very hard to get. In the past years, coal was the basic fuel for Russian industry. Nowadays Russia has about 200 billion tons of coal.
These energy resources help our country survive, and Russian government spend a lot of money on exploring this energy.



link: http://countrystudies.us/russia/61.htm

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