Yarega oil deposit: the history of development and prospects

In the old oil-producing regions, the content of hard-to-recover reserves increases due to intensive development of active reserves. The problem of developing heavy oil deposits is extremely relevant for Russia, but industrial development is not going fast enough due to their low profitability. The article is devoted to the history of the development of the Yarega heavy oil field, which was discovered in 1932, and since 1939 it has been mining. The oil deposit is confined to quartz sandstones of Devonian age. A feature of the reservoir, containing the oil deposit, is that it contains industrial reserves of titanium. Therefore, the uniqueness of the Yaregа field lies not only in the mine method of extracting heavy high-viscosity oil, but also in the integrated development of minerals that, at the whim of nature, are combined in one facility.