The Hydrocarbon Potential of Yakutia is a Real Basis for Export Supplies of Oil and Gas to the Asia-Pacific Export Countries

Abstract

The article contains of the history of exploration for oil and gas in Yakutia from the 1930s to the present. Issues related to the discovery of deposits and the creation of a resource base in eastern Russia under various geological conditions are considered. The oil exploration program in Siberia was developed in 1932-34. When analyzing the history of oil and gas exploration work carried out in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), with a certain degree of conditionality, a number of stages are distinguished that differ in the prevailing directions of the location of the work, their volume, methodology and peculiarities of integration (1933-1955; 1956-1971; 1972-1984; 1985-1992; 1993 and to the present). During these years, the following most significant geological results were recorded. In the early 30s, the first oil was obtained in the middle reaches of the river. Lena, in the valley of her right tributary of the river. Tuolba. In 1956, the first Ust-Vilyuiskoye gas field was discovered in Yakutia. The initial geological resources of hydrocarbons in prospective areas of Western Yakutia are 24 billion tons, including 10.4 billion tons of oil (2.6 billion tons of recoverable), free gas of 12.1 trillion cubic meters; gas dissolved in oil, 0.8 trillion cubic meters tons; condensate 0.7 billion tons. The predominant part of the initial geological resources of hydrocarbon gas is concentrated in the Vilyui and Nepa-Botuoba oil and gas regions. The situation with the development of proven reserves of oil and gas and the prospects for their further expansion are covered. The data obtained, together with the materials of the work of past years, convincingly indicate that the republic’s subsoil has the largest oil and gas potential, capable of further accelerating the growth of the raw hydrocarbon base and the discovery of new large fields, including oil in fundamentally new areas.