GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE AND PETROLEUM POTENTIAL PROSPECTS OF THE KUZNETSK INDEPENDENT PETROLEUM REGION

The resource base potential and geological prospects of the Paleozoic petroleum plays of the Kuznetsk Independent Petroleum Region for raw hydrocarbons are considered. Prospects of the Devonian-Lower Carboniferous play developed on the Krapivinskaya and Gorno-Shorskaya monoclines are determined on the ground of analysis of the modern geological and geophysical study of the Kuznetsk Trough, systematization and generalization of oil and gas geological materials obtained during well drilling. The estimation of inferred oil and gas resources of structures located within their limits is given. In addition to the structures considered separately, the estimation of forecast hydrocarbon resources of the Kuznetsk Trough is given by a volumestatistic method based on the involvement into the assessment of relatively well-studied sedimentation basins of the world (SB) with a known value of TIR HCs and other parameters included in the model and genetically influencing the value of TIR HCs.