Russia's "fight back"

Russian President Vladimir Putin in July this year at the second session of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum to speak, said the exploitation of shale gas does not seriously affect the international market. U.S.  shale gas  exploration has brought some positive results, for the final consumer per 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas to reduce the $ 120 fee. But it did not bring the exploitation pattern of significant changes in the world market. He also stressed the shale gas negative impact on the environment, non-recyclable mining model will allow for additional local economic activity, and lead to deterioration of ecological environment.
Prior to this, Putin has publicly criticized over shale gas development costs are too high, and the impact on the environment. Gazprom CEO Alexei? Miller has described shale gas revolution become a lie, and that this bubble will soon burst. He said: "We are skeptical of shale gas and we believe that it does not bring us any risks."
August 2012, the Russian Economic Development Committee Vice-Andre said that Russia's energy companies had underestimated the potential of shale resources, attention now to the good time.
Putin also said that Russia's energy companies will let rise to the challenges posed by shale gas revolution.Unconventional gas December 2012, he proposed that by 2017, Russia will be large-scale development of shale gas. Recently, the Russian gas company announced a number of projects, or in the first half start bidding.
In fact, according to Russian oil and gas chemical industry alliance experts taka Aliyev introduction, Russia 70-90 years from the last century began to make a series of shale gas activities, but after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, is widely used coal, natural gas prices and very high, so shale gas be terminated. Until 2010, only to return Russian gas shale horizons.
"Russian shale reserves accounted for 7% of the world's total reserves, as long as the master developer of advanced technology, excellent prospects for exploitation, of course, I hope the Government can give more attention to." President of the Federation from the Ural region of Alexandria? Mirano husband said he was confident in the development of shale gas resources in Russia.
Now, Russia's oil enterprises to look into Siberia Bazhenov shale oil field. Russia's Lukoil vice president of FEI Teng pointed out, hoping the U.S. "shale revolution" technology applied to Bazhenov, and usher in the next five years or so a scale comparable to America's "energy revolution." Russia's government has also undertaken to dispense Bazhenov oil extraction tax, used to attract oil prices to the local mining.
However, experts pointed out that the lack of Siberia for hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling equipment and other key technologies, coupled Bazhenov geology there is still uncertainty,fracturing proppant the actual efficiency of oil production is still unknown. Senior director of international energy consultancy Gustafson said Bazhenov layers of mystery still hangs, pending further research is needed to understand its oil production potential.
"The United States spent several years developing shale gas only achieve results, the Russians want to copy shale gas revolution, take some time." Russia's Lukoil vice president Forden representation.