The management of subsoil resources and the replenishment of the hydrocarbon raw material base are crucial state tasks at the current stage of the country's economic development
A.M. Brekhuntsov, I.I. Nesterov, A.V. Byakov, T.D. Shabalina
JSC «GEODATA Multidisciplinaty Scientific Enterprise», Tyumen, Russia
Keywords: Hydrocarbon resources, Exploration, Oil and gas reserves, Production, History of hydrocarbon potential development, Western Siberia.
Abstract
Throughout the country's history, replenishing the oil and gas resource base has been a paramount state objective. Due to the state's priority in subsurface exploration, a vast fuel and energy complex was formed in a short period. For several decades now, the West Siberian oil and gas province has been the largest region in terms of hydrocarbon reserves and resources. Over all these years, the Tyumen region, including its autonomous okrugs, has produced 14.3 billion tons of oil out of a total of 27.6 billion tons for the entire country. Gas production amounted to 23.2 trillion cubic meters out of 27.6 trillion cubic meters. The discovery and development of Western Siberia's oil and gas potential is the result of the successful implementation of a large-scale scientific, industrial, and socio-economic project. Currently, the fields of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra and the Nadym-Pur-Taz region, which have provided the main oil and gas production for several decades, are in a declining trend. The transition to a state-oriented mineral resource policy, based on a long-term subsurface exploration strategy, is necessary. The management system for the oil and gas sector of the economy should legally originate from a state structure endowed with economic functions.
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