Rosneft to be included into the Bermuda triangle – the oil company will be able to produce gas hydrates

Scientists have found new segment of the gas market for Rosneft – the production of gas hydrates, whose reserves on the shelf of the Kuril Islands may reach 87 trillion cubic meters of gas. These are unconventional hydrocarbon sources and one of the hypothesis explains the phenomenon of the Bermuda triangle with their deposits. Experts note high prime cost of the gas hydrates production. But the neighboring Japan is starting to produce them and the Ministry of Energy believes that gas hydrates is the more serious threat to Gazprom than shale gas.

The Far Eastern geological institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences has offered Rosneft to study the possibilities of  gas hydrates production on the shelf of the Kuril Islands and estimated their potential at 87 trillion cubic meters of gas. Sources, close to the oil company, told this to the Kommersant. A representative of Rosneft stated that “the company hasn’t received any proposals to develop gas hydrates yet”, but the Kommersant’s interlocutors in the company know about this initiative.