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Shale Strata of Kaliningrad Region - Geology, Modelling, Resource Potential and Prospects of Development
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, EAGE/SPE Workshop on Shale Science 2017, Apr 2017, Volume 2017, p.1 - 3
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Abstract
Shale complexes as unconventional sources of hydrocarbons represent serious competition to oil and gas production from conventional fields over the last years. Undoubted success of shale hydrocarbons exploration in North America contribute to the study of shale complexes in many countries, including European ones, such as the UK, France, Sweden, Germany, Hungary, Romania and others. A role in the allocation of shale areas in the Baltic region is given to the Kaliningrad region of Russia. Authors distinguished on the basis of comprehensive analysis including geochemical, geophysical, lithofacial, paleotectonical, paleontological and other studies, the main promising objects for hydrocarbon searches; areas of their distribution and maximum concentrations (in terms of organic matter content and thickness of promising strata) are contoured; the degree of organic matter katagenesis is determined; geochemical reconstructions of oil formation processes in the Paleozoic sediments of the Kaliningrad region are performed; preliminary assessment of hydrocarbon resources is carried out. And authors gave some general recommendations for the development of these resources.