Lev M. Burshtein, corr. member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), head of the Laboratory of theoretical bases of hydrocarbon evaluation potential, IPGG SB RAS, delivered a presentation at the petroleum geology seminar. His presentation focused on the remaining hydrocarbon resources in petroleum regions and complexes within the West Siberian petroleum province.
Lev Burshtein
Lev Burshtein says that both the exploration maturity of a significant portion of the West Siberian petroleum province, the largest physical hydrocarbon basin in the world – West Siberian Super Basin, and certain discoveries are presently so high that probabilistic appraisal of the inferred and possible resources appears not only necessary, but also logical.
– The need for their probabilistic appraisal has been undeniably recognized by specialists. Unfortunately, in practice, probabilistic aggregation of the resource estimates for multiple fields has not been consistently implemented with regard to the WSSB resources, noted Lev Burshtein. "In cases where quantitative analogies were used, probabilistic estimates of the resources were naturally inferred from the related statistics of reference objects, but, unfortunately, these estimates were not always reflected in the final appraisal results."
– The goal of this work is to provide a probabilistic assessment of undiscovered hydrocarbon resources in part of WSSB excluding fairly essentially underexplored areas and petroleum complexes, based on an size-distribution analysis of identified hydrocarbon accumulations, emphasized Lev Burshtein.
Alina Kosmacheva
The methodology brought forward by L.M. Burshtein considers a possible object of appraisal of undiscovered resources to be a petroleum system (or its major portion) that has been relatively uniformly explored, within which hydrocarbon accumulations have formed in largely similar manner, and a substantial proportion of the largest accumulations have been fully identified. Specifically, this this part of the West Siberian Super Basin is chosen by IPGG SB RAS, to perform quantification of hydrocarbon resources using probabilistic approach.
V.A. Kashirtsev, RAS corr. member
The report aroused great interest among the audience. Academician M.I. Epov, V.A. Kashirtsev, RAS corr. member, V.A. Kontorovich, RAS corr. member; V.V. Lapkovsky, DSc (geol.-mineral.), V.A. Kazanenkov, DSc (geol.-mineral.), A.S. Salnikov, DSc (geol.-mineral.), V.D. Suvorov, DSc (geol.-mineral.), Yu.F. Filippov, DSc (geol.-mineral.), S.V. Ryzhkova, PhD (geol.-mineral.), A.P. Rodchenko, PhD (geol.-mineral.) participated in a lively discussion in the wake of L.M. Burshtein’s presentation.
E.V. Ponomareva, E.S. Yaroslavtseva, A.N. Kozyrev, L.M. Burshtein, V.A. Kontorovich
In his note closing the seminar, Academician Mikhail Epov emphasized the importance of the presented methodology for unlocking potential in the West Siberian petroleum province.
Academician Mikhail Epov
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