New Ideas on the Large Petroleum Potential of Central Areas of Western Yakutia

Abstract

A brief information on the territories of Western Yakutia with discovered and projected oil bearing of sed- imentary cover is presented. New scientific approaches to the prediction of oil-bearing of sedimentary cover of the East of Siberian platform are proposed. Some new ideas about areas of oil and gas concentration of the newly formed type are developed. Their selection is reasonable in geological conditions, where, along with other favorable indicators of potential oil and gas content, numerous shows of oil and gas are discov- ered indicating active migration processes and concentration of hydrocarbons at the present stage of geolog- ical development of certain territories. It is substantiated a possibility of discovering in the next few years, new oil fields in the central regions of Yakutia with projected total geological oil resources more than 1 bil- lion tonnes. Recommendations are given on the priority of oil exploration activities in West Botuoba, South Vilyui and Aldan-Maya areas in connection with the implementation of major oil and gas mega-projects in the east of the Russian Federation and the large-scale oil supply for export through the pipeline system East- ern Siberia–Pacific ocean to the Asia-Pacific region. Taking into account the current state of geological and geophysical knowledge of each of the areas the priorities and the sequence of their study are substantiated.