oa Recommendations for wells drilling in the unfavorable structural-tectonic conditions

Prospects for further exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbon fields with practically exhausted potential of structural-tectonic traps have been analyzed. Appropriate approaches are proposed to identify new traps in such fields or areas. They are based on a comprehensive study of horizons promising for hydrocarbons. Such study involves the analysis of regional oil and gas horizons, the attraction of additional geological and geophysical information from adjacent fields or areas and the use of direct hydrocarbon indicators. Studying the behavior of regional productive horizons within the license area helps to identify common factors for the presence of hydrocarbons. Geological and geophysical data of adjacent areas allow us to extrapolate these data and to obtain the prerequisites for the detection of perspective fragments of structural-tectonic traps. At the same time, the use of direct hydrocarbon indicators is the most reliable way to detect hydrocarbon traps of any type. Together with the possibility of detecting oil and gas traps, the use of direct indicator technologies allows us to estimate the amount of hydrocarbon resources discovered. The above approaches have revealed areas promising for the presence of hydrocarbons in the sediments of the Moscow stage of middle carbon. It is has been recommended the well drilling for sediments of the regional production complex M-7.