Prospects for the resource base development of the oil and gas industry of the Timan-Pechora province

The history of the oil and gas complex development is considered, and the current state of the resource base of the Timan-Pechora oil and gas province is estimated.The relevance of the chosen topic is determined by the fact that at present the main direction of maintenance and development of oil production in the Timan-Pechora oil and gas province is the development of new fields and the introduction of oil deposits in the already developed fields. In the course of the work, a set of studies aimed at identifying new objects for the search for hydrocarbon deposits, establish- ing the regularities of the formation of the void space of the complex reservoirs of the lower Paleozoic and Mesozoic, clarifying the catagenetic zoning of the main oil and gas complexes, was carried out.Particular attention was paid to the establishment of regularities in the structure of carbonate and terrigenous oil and gas complexes containing hydrocarbon depo- sits; the study of the formation of carbonate reservoirs of the early Paleozoic and terrigenous Mesozoic, as well as the identification of factors determining the for- mation of capacitive and filtration properties of these deposits.The results of geological and geophysical surveys in various areas are summarized. New data on the texture-structural features and reservoir properties of carbonate and terrigenous rocks, their filtration-capacitive features, the composition of or- ganic matter, the conditions of formation and oil and gas generating potential of sedimentary strata are obtained using modern analytical methods.