Decision of the 18th Geological Congress of the Komi Republic

From April 10 to April 12, 2024, the 18th Geological Congress of the Komi Republic was held in Syktyvkar. More than 500 delegates representing 140 organizations and departments from 30 regions of the Russian Federation and 4 other countries took part in the Congress. The participants summed up the following results for the past 5 years: the level of oil production remained at the level of 13-14 million tons, 4 new oil fields were discovered; coal production decreased to 6-8 million tons per year; a total of 64.053 thousand tons of bauxite were mined; the reserves of titanium ores of the Pizhemskoye deposit, approved in 2020, amount to 300.4 million tons in categories C1 + C2. The production of construction sands and ASG is stable - 2.5-3 million m3. The State Geological Map at a scale of 1 : 1 000 000 (third generation) has been compiled for the entire territory of the Komi Republic. Participants of the 18th Geological Congress of the Komi Republic consider it necessary: to pay more attention to the development of Arctic territories; to stabilize coal and oil production, to increase production and processing of natural gas; to consider the North Pre-Ural oil and gas region to be the main direction of geological exploration for oil and gas; for the Government of the Komi Republic to make a decision on the road to the Verkhne-Vorykvinskaya bauxite deposit; to create a national mining cluster on the basis of the Pizhemskoye deposit; to continue studying unconventional hydrocarbon resources, primarily the complexes of domanik and domanikoid deposits. To hold the 19th “Mining and Geological Congress of the Komi Republic” in 2029.