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- INCLUDED TO SHOW THERE IS NO SHORTAGE, PROVING LINDSEY WILLIAMS' BOOK, THE ENERGY NON-CRISIS mentioned in the article "The Flood"
"A natural gas deposit discovered in the north of Western Siberia is believed to contain four trillion cubic metres of gas." A vast cemetery of wealth? An ice desert? Nothing of the kind. Half of the Soviet Union's prospected reserves of iron ore, 80 per cent of its total power resources, 90 per cent of its coal, almost 80 per cent of its timber resources, "an island floating on an underground ocean of oil", a natural treasure-house of gold, diamonds, complex ores, bauxite and titanium－this is Siberia. The "Discovery of the Century", "An oil Giant", "A Rival on the World Oil Market Not to be Sneezed at", these are some of the headlines that appeared in the world press shortly after the discovery of oil in Siberia. In the eleven years since the first oil gusher started up in Western Siberia, a series of new major oil and gas deposits have been found there. Some of them are on a par with the world's greatest. One of these is the Samotlor location. In the United States, the average daily output per oil well is some two tons. By comparison, Siberian wells produce up to a hundred tons a day. The oil deposit recently discovered at Lake Samotlor produces the fantastic amount of 1,000 tons a day. The Samotlor deposit alone is capable of producing 100 million tons of oil a year, which is as much as the whole Soviet Union produced as recently as 15 years ago. According to expert estimates, Siberia's resources of oil run into tens of billions of tons, and those of gas into trillions of cubic metres. Excerpt from This Warm Siberia! by Nikolai Meissak (1973).