“These findings suggest that in the future the … pre-eminence of Russian strategic control of gas resources in particular is likely to be accentuated and extended,” said Donald Gautier, lead author of the study published in Friday’s edition of the journal Science, Associated Press reports. Two-thirds of the undiscovered gas is in just four areas — South Kara Sea, North Barents Basin, South Barents Basin and the Alaska Platform — the report said. Indeed, the South Kara Sea off Siberia contains 39 percent of the Arctic’s undiscovered gas, the researchers said, the Moscow Times reports.
