General projects of Japan hydrogen strategy and their future influence on the prospects of oil and gas industry development in Russia
The paper analyzes the implementation of Japan's hydrogen policy and its main projects in this field from the standpoint of their possible impact on the prospects of the oil and gas industry development in Russia. The main tasks are considered in detail in view of hydrogen use and production with the priority trends of hydrogen energy development in Japan, formulated in the country's main state document in the field of energy - the next (the fifth) Strategic Energy Plan. The ongoing work and ongoing projects are analyzed in each priority field, their achieved and expected results are presented. It is concluded that the widespread use of hydrogen and hydrogen technologies will definitely reduce Japan's dependence on the imported, including Russian ones, hydrocarbons. But this process will be extended in time, and a large-scale decrease of their import can be expected only beyond 2035.