Own developments will allow the fuel and energy complex not to depend on imported equipment

Alexey Belogoryev, Research and Development Director of the Institute for Energy and Finance, commented to Rossiyskaya Gazeta on import substitution in the Russian oil and gas complex.

"Until 2019, all the technologies for the production of liquefied natural gas (LNG) were Western," Alexey Belogoryev said . - After that, NOVATEK developed the Arctic Cascade technology, and there are various options for its application. Gazprom continues to work on import substitution at the Ust-Luga plant under construction. So the technology of gas liquefaction is not the bottleneck in the long-term process."

According to the expert, the problem of gas tankers, which are supposed to export the produced LNG, looks much more serious. At the end of 2025, Alexey Kosygin, the first Arc 7 class gas tanker built in Russia, was commissioned.

"There is a chance that the tanker Pyotr Stolypin will be commissioned by the end of this year, and the tanker Sergey Witte in the first half of 2027," Alexey Belogoryev said. "The prospects for the construction of the remaining vessels are questionable."

However, our country has managed to develop important technologies for the industry before. The main achievement of the past years is the creation of our own catalysts for oil refining, the analyst believes.