Tham khảo tài liệu 'electricity infrastructures in the global marketplace part 10', kỹ thuật - công nghệ, cơ khí - chế tạo máy phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 420 Electricity Infrastructures in the Global Marketplace Import of energy resources is crucial for Japan and South Korea since these countries have practically no natural fuel resources of their own. However during the recent years Japan has been intensively searching for alternative gas sources which could at least partially reduce dependence of the country on foreign supplies. In particular the program for prospecting and development of the gas hydrate shelf fields near the sea coast of Japan has been elaborated. By now 12 hydrate-bearing areas of the shelf containing about 6 trillion m3 of methane 11 has been explored. But the commercial exploitation of the gas hydrate fields is a matter of the distant future. China cfn be is important importer of fuel and energy resources in nearest future. Russia also pursues its economic interest in East Asia region. In this connection in different time joint discussions and work on a number of energy projects Russia-East Asia countries which are at different stages of realization were started. Some characteristics of these projects are given in Table . Having considered the subject matter and main incentives of the Russia-East Asia energy export-import co-operation it is necessary to estimate it in terms of energy security of Russia and its partners and partially in terms of economic and ecological security. Positive arguments for the East Asia countries consist in the following 1. Provision of economically beneficial balance of their energy supply. 2. Provision of diversification of sources of hydrocarbons supplies Russia objectively interested in stable East-Asia market for its oil and particularly natural gas joins the conventional sources -countries of Persian Gulf Africa and partly Southeast Asia and Australia gas . In so doing the Russian sources themselves are also diversified Sakhalin Irkutsk region Yakutia . 3. Improvement of the structure of fuel balances of the East Asia countries by using environmentally .
