[Aaus-list] [Brama politics] That Strilkove Gas Plant ???

[Max Pyziur]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2014, Bohdan Pechenyak wrote:

> Well, it's just a bit premature to suspect there is NO gas plant there at all, basing conclusions on Google Maps alone. How accurate do you think Google
> Maps are in the area of Strilkove? For example, while Google Maps is excellent in the U.S., until very recently it was terrible in many places abroad. I
> remember very recently L'viv itself was very badly mapped and the quality of images was substandard. 

I can see my paternal grandparents' burial plot in a cemetary in Rudne to 
the west of Lviv.

> So, I guess that makes me a bit skeptical of Google Maps as a tool in this instance. 
> 
> Did you do a general search for the gas plant? For example there is this information about a natural gas reserves at Strilkove: 
> 
> Запаси газу початкові видобувні категорій А+В+С1 — 3085 млн. м³. Родовище перебуває на стадії стабільно падаючого видобутку з постійним фондом
> експлуатаційних свердловин. Всього видобуто 1662 млн. м³ газу (53,8% від початкових запасів). Обсяг відбору газу залежить від тиску в газопроводі
> Стрілка-Джанкой-Сімферополь.
> https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Стрілкове_газове_родовище

Reserves are separate from production, processing, and compression 
facilities.

> I'm no expert on gas and its infrastructure, to be sure, but neither are you, I believe. Why do you think the infrastructure MUST be obvious? Maybe you

I am. I do it professionally.

> simply did not locate it or where looking in the wrong place? I mean, there are a number of possibilities here, so it just seems a bit paranoid to raise
> such questions and doubt before doing a thorough check. It just becomes a distraction. Don't you think that the Ukrainian journalists are capable of
> checking such elementary facts? 
> 
> That's all, no ruckus, rumpus or otherwise. Let's just take care with raising such questions, because it creates unnecessary noise. A few more strokes of
> keyboard could void the need to raise the question in the first place. 
> 
> I guess my reaction is based on the fact that there is WAY too much information these days and I am trying to avoid that which is useless or unnecessary.
> That's why EACH OF US should exercise utmost judgment and care in our communications. 

I did; you didn't.

> Anyway, no bad feelings. 
> 
> Vsioho dobroho,
> Bohdan.

MP