February 24, 2020

Russia's Company Towns

Timothy Birdnow

Not content with old, decrepit slums, the Russian government plans on building NEW decripit slums in Siberia!

Russia Planning Biggest Oil Project in History of World - $155 Billion Investment, 15 New Towns, Airports, Ports, 100K Jobs

Igor Sechin and his state-owned oil company Rosneft intends to develop large oil reserves on the wide-stretched tundra lands of northern Ural and export it through a projected seaport in the Taymyr Peninsula.

It will be the biggest project in modern-day global oil industry, Sechin underlined to Putin.

According to the Rosneft leader, the Vostok Oil will include the development of 15 new industry towns, two airports, a seaport, about 800 km of new pipelines, 3500 km of new electricity lines and 2000 MW of electric power capacity.

It will require 100,000 new jobs and lead to a 2 percent annual hike in national GDP, heexplains.

To Arctic coast

The project is based onthe development of several oil fields, includingat least threein the Vankor area. The new pipelines and theprojected seaport terminal will enable the partners to export an estimated 25 million tons oil per year through the Northern Sea Route.

The pipeline will also be projected to carryoil from Payakha, the fields located along the Yenisey River. By year 2030, a total of 100 million tons of oil can be exported through the pipeline and the new seaport in Taymyr. Afleet of top ice-class Arc7 tankers are to be built for the project, Sechinhas previously explained.

Good luck Russkies!  While I'm all for more oil and gas anywhere, I rather doubt these new cities will develop in the way they hope. They will be company towns, entirely dependent on the company and on government subsidies. They may produce oil and gas - or not - but they will not spur real settlement and vibrant communities.

These kind of things can't be done top down. That has never worked in the past. That is why Russia was never able to settle Siberia in the first place.

People may go there for a stint but will return home. In the end these big communities will fail.

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1 I suppose Bernie Sanders will oppose this, unless they promise to put solar panels on top of all the buildings, and put up a bunch of wind turbines.

But he'll be unhappy about the oil, even though his old buddy Putin is behind this.

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at February 24, 2020 11:50 AM (qzo8l)

2 I imagine that is why the Russians are supporting the Bern in the next election.  He'll make US do it.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at February 24, 2020 03:04 PM (+wQqK)

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Posted by: Samy Mor at February 03, 2021 08:10 AM (e407W)

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