IS IT POSSIBLE TO SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENT SOCIAL GASIFICA-TION/PRE-GASIFICATION IN THE CON-TEXT OF GLOBAL ECONOMIC AND GEOPOLITICAL INSTABILITY?

This article presents the results of the anal-ysis of the economic state of the domestic gas industry, including the activities of the flagship of the country's fuel and energy complex, the Public Joint Stock Company Gazprom Group of Companies. The prob-lems of reorientation of gas raw material exports to the East, issues of creating a liquefied natural gas complex, an icebreak-er fleet for transporting LNG to old and new areas and sales points are considered. An independent research issue is the difficul-ties of implementing the state target pro-gram of social gasification and pre-gasification of Russian territories. The pur-pose of this subject study is a comprehen-sive economic assessment of the imple-mentation of state programs for regional development based on the use of hydro-carbon raw materials, including the social gasification/pre-gasification program in the constituent entities of the Federation. The results of the research obtained by the au-thors of the article are reduced to the anal-ysis of departmental non-public information on the identified problems in the gas indus-try. As a research tool, the methods of ac-tivity comparative studies and economic statistics were used. The conceptual ap-proaches involved were discussed. The article ends with three conclusions.