Characteristic

Russia is one of the few countries in the world and one of the three countries in Asia ( next to Turkey and Kazakhstan ) , whose territory is situated on two continents. At the same time is the only country in the world, so large areas are positioned both on the European continent and Asia. This position offers excellent conditions for the development of transport capacity . This is manifested in the case of Russia, among other things led to the large -scale transport of energy resources extracted in this country that goes to many European and Asian countries - including the Polish and German - through a network of pipelines.

The Russian economy has a great development potential. In a state that includes the world's largest natural resources, including wood , precious metals , and most of all liquid fuels and energy commodities ( crude oil , natural gas, coal and lignite ) . Accordingly , Russia has the world's largest energy sources. Moreover, in this country there is also a fourth of the world's freshwater resources.

Both petroleum and natural gas can be extracted in Russia without restrictions ( production quotas ) imposed by OPEC on its members ( Russia does not belong to the organization ). In recent years , oil production and policies related to the transport of harvested energy has become not only a major source of economic growth , but also the means geostrategic pressure on the governments of some countries in Europe and Asia. Another factor impinging on the fact that we in this sector active policy of Russia is that the country is the world's largest oil producer . In 2012, Russia mined 10.73 million barrels per day , which gave her a second year in a row , the first in the world (Saudi Arabia at the same time occupied the second position with the extraction at 9.57 million barrels per day , while the United States was third the extraction estimated at 9.11 million barrels per day ).