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Russian economy could be hurt by falling oil exports
by Daniel J. Graeber
Moscow (UPI) Jul 7, 2013


Few wins for Shell in Saudi Arabian natural gas effort
London (UPI) Jul 7, 2013 - An exploration campaign targeting natural gas reserves in the deserts of Saudi Arabia hasn't been successful, an official at Royal Dutch Shell said.

Saudi Arabia, the world's leading oil producer, is estimated to hold 288 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Andrew Brown, director of upstream operations at Shell, told The Sunday Telegraph newspaper in London, a decade-long search has nonetheless been fruitless.

"We haven't had a very successful exploration campaign," he said.

Shell was working on developments in the Rub al-Khali desert through a joint venture with Saudi Aramco. No work has taken place since February and the newspaper report says Shell's efforts have been plagued by the high cost of working in the extreme desert climate.

"We aren't conducting any operations there [at Rub al-Khali desert] at the moment," Brown said.

An anticipated drop in oil production by 2016 is expected to hurt the Russian economy, the Russian Finance Ministry said Monday.

The ministry said Monday it expects a $4.5 billion decline in oil export revenue because of an anticipated 6.3 percent drop in oil production from 2014 figures.

The ministry said the federal budget next year will receive about $2.2 billion less than expected because of a contraction in exports.

A report on the Russian economy from the World Bank in March said real gross domestic product growth in 2013 was 1.3 percent, compared with 3.4 percent in 2012. There's a "confidence crisis" emerging within the Russian economy, the bank warned.

"In the past, the lack of comprehensive structural reforms was masked by a growth model based on large investment projects, continued increases in public wages, and transfers -- all fueled by sizable oil revenues," it said.

Russian energy exports last year accounted for more than 10 percent of GDP.

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