FEATURES OF OCCURRENCE CONDITIONS OF THE BAZHENOV, DOMANIK AND KUONAMKA SEDIMENTS IN OIL AND GAS BASINS OF RUSSIA

Abstract

Using information from the database of the Institute of Petroleum Chemistry SB RAS and the methods of statistical and spatial analysis of geographical information systems, we evaluated the data on oil occurrence conditions in the Bazhenov, Domanik and Kuonamka Formations of the oil and gas bearing territories of Russia, the development of which will allow discovering the new sources of increased oil production. The digital maps of the arrangement of hydrocarbon fields in the Bazhenov, Domanik and Kuonamka sediments over the territories of the Volga-Ural, Timan-Pechora and Lena-Tunguska oil and gas bearing basins are presented. The distribution of oils from these deposits over the depth of occurrence in each basin is shown. The lithological features of reservoir rocks are established. The average values of reservoir parameters characterising the filtration and capacitance properties of the pools in these sediments are determined. To analyse the conditions of Bazhenov oil occurrence, a batch of 2833 oil samples from 127 fields of the West Siberian basin was used, for Domanik oil - 407 samples from 195 fields of the Volga-Ural and Timan-Pechora basins, and for Kuonamka oil - 117 samples from 28 fields of the Lena-Tunguska basin. A comparative analysis of the geological and physical characteristics producing a direct impact on the development regime and the effectiveness of technologies used to extract these hard-to-recover oils was carried out: permeability and porosity of rocks, reservoir temperature and pressure. It is shown that the Domanik and Kuonamka sediments are the closest in characteristics to the reservoirs of the developed American shale oil fields, which indicates the possibility for effective application of the positive experience of the United States for Russian oilfields. The results of the study can be used in the development of new and improvement of existing methods and technologies for the extraction and processing of hard-to-recover oils from the studied sediments.