World experience of study and use unconventional hydrocarbon resources

Abstract

The article presents common and distinctive characteristics of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon resources and synchronized determinations their main types in Ukrainian and English terminology. The major prospecting-prognosis criteria and features of the unconventional hydrocarbons resources main types were defined. The geological conditions syngenesis of forming unconventional resources different types were established for the Dnieper-Donets depression and quantity of their potential was defined, which much exceeds the general assessment of traditional resources (6.8 trillion m³ gas). The world experience in prospecting and extraction of unconventional hydrocarbons was analyzed. The main tasks in solution the problem of use Ukrainian unconventional hydrocarbon sources significant resources potential were defined.

Keywords

• oil
• shale gas
• coal bed methane
• tight sands
• basin-central gas