Petroleum Potential of Deep Oligocene-Miocene Basins in Southern Russia

摘要

Recent decades have witnessed the vigorous advance of the petroleum industry towards deep offshore areas that embrace the continental slope and its foothills. Published materials [1 and others] reflect discoveries of large offshore petroleum fields, including giant and supergiant fields such as Roncador, Marlim, Albacora, Bonga, Agbami, Bosl, Crazy Horse, Mars, Mad Dog, and others (figure). These fields are located in different basins on passive margins of the Atlantic Ocean: offshore Nova Scotia, the Gulf of Mexico, and Brazil, on the western side; and on the coasts of western Africa, on the eastern side. In the Indian Ocean, such fields have been discovered along the northern and western coasts of Australia, southeastern coast of India, and southeastern coast of Asia. Large petroleum fields are known in the deepwater part of the Nile River delta and on the Algerian margin. These discoveries have confirmed theoretical predictions of petroleum concentrations in deepwater areas of the World Ocean, including the Black and Caspian seas.