Home – Home – Jornals – Russian Geology and Geophysics 2001 number 11-12

The problem of forecast of the largest (giant) oil and gas deposits arises not from insufficient empirical knowledge (most recoverable HC resources of the world have been prospected) but from the necessity of its generalization and theoretical justification. Transition from empirical to theoretical level of knowledge requires a deeper integration of oil geology as a special study into the general structure of natural sciences, which requires formalization of a special knowledge in accordance with general principles and laws of the natural science. Inductive analysis traditionally used in oil geology in the context of historical and genetic approach must be complemented with deductive analysis based on static approach. Particular methodological forms of the latter approach are techniques of mathematical simulation, based on regularities in distribution of HC resources of oil and gas basins (OGB) among deposits of various sizing classes, and techniques of analogous structurization, based on regularities of distribution of giant deposits in the planetary system of OGB.