Energy and Economic Reform in the Former Soviet Union: Implications for Production, Consumption and Exports, and for the International Energy Markets

by Marian Radetzki, Leslie Dienes, Istvan Dobozi

Book Overview

This book provides a succinct account of what may happen to the energy sector in the former Soviet Union in the medium- to long-run under alternative scenarios for macroeconomic reform. The analyses reveal the serious damage of the oil resource base caused by the reckless exploitation practices of the past. Production of oil and coal can recover only slowly from the doldrums of the early 1990s, but the potential to expand gas output is very considerable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134939193X
• ISBN13: 9781349391936
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"