Status of oil and gas prospecting in USSR in 1971

Journal Article · Fri Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1972 · Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol. Bull.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6095887

Eremenko, N A; Ovanesov, G P; Semenovich, V V

Since 1966, numerous discoveries in new basins have caused major shifts in the Russian reserve picture, both stratigraphically and geographically. Most proved reserves now are in Mesozoic rather than in Paleozoic strata, and the principal oil- and gas-bearing basins of the future will be found in W. Siberia, Kazakhstan, and Central Asia. The present major role of the Volga-Urals district will decline and the center of USSR production will leave European Russia for the first time. West Siberian reserves along are twice the amount of all oil and gas already produced and to be produced from the Volga-Urals district. In addition, large potential oil- and gas-bearing basins are present off shore and a major task is to develop the offshore shelves as soon as posssible. Huge fields have been discovered in W. Siberia and in Soviet Central Asia, as well as in the Pechora and Vilyuy basins. Cambrian production has been established in the Baltic depression of European Russia and in the Irkutsk Basin of S.-central Siberia. The ultimate number of fields that will be found in the USSR is unknown, but it will be many times more than the present 1,300 to 1,400.

• OSTI ID: 6095887
• Journal Information: Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol. Bull.; (United States), Journal Name: Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol. Bull.; (United States) Vol. 59:9; ISSN AAPGB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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