Today, Russia is one of the three world leaders in the production of hydrocarbons: in 2014, our country produced 525 million tons of oil and 668 billion m 3 of natural gas. At the same time, more than 90% of our gas and 10% of oil comes from the deposits in the Russian sector of the Arctic, i. e., the Arctic regions of Russia. It is only natural, therefore, that our country has been a historic leader in the multi-area development of the Arctic oil and gas resources-from prospecting to commissioning new oil and gas fields. In so doing, we have relied on domestic science and technology.
