A flashy media coup, sure—but don’t waste your breath waiting for this project to crawl into reality. One glance at the map tells the whole story. Pipelines aren’t magic straws; they’re made of endless steel, compressor stations, and staggering capital burn.
Eastern Siberian gas? Not exactly a motherlode—just scattered little pockets that demand a siphon, which bleeds money before a single molecule moves. And while it’s “close” to China, it was never destined for Europe anyway. No tectonic shifts there.
The Western Siberian fields, the ones welded to Europe, sit a continent away from Beijing. And China, let’s be blunt, isn’t in the habit of overpaying—least of all now, when Russia is grasping at any scrap of propaganda it can wave about.
Run the numbers and even Moscow’s accountants will see the joke: the economics don’t work. The project will stagger on for a while, feeding headlines, before quietly dying the slow death of bureaucratic neglect.
https://globallnghub.com/report-presentation/china-russia-gas-ties-limited-near-term-lng-impact