TITLE : STRATIGRAPHIC AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF OIL AND

GAS PRODUCTION IN WEST SIBERIAN LOWLAND OF RUSSIA

PRESENTED BY: SALEM KALUFANDU MABOYA (20212897)

COURSE: SPECIAL TOPICS IN PETROLEUM ENGINEERING

TUTOR: PROF. DR. CAVIT ATALAR

DATE: 13TH- JANUARY 2023

 OUTLINE

 TITLE PAGE
 OUTLINE
 West Siberian petroleum basin
 West Siberian petroleum basin Oil and gas reserves
 Oil & Gas fields in West Siberian petroleum basin
 SAMOTLOR FIELD
 BRIEF HISTORY OF SAMOTLOR FIELD
 RESERVES
 STRATIGRAPHY
 PRODUCTION AND RESERVES
 REFERENCES
 West Siberian petroleum basin

 The West Siberian petroleum basin (also known as the West Siberian
hydrocarbon province or Western Siberian oil basin) is the largest
hydrocarbon (petroleum and natural gas) basin in the world covering an
area of about 2.2 million km², and is also the largest oil and gas producing
region in Russia.
 Geographically it corresponds to the West Siberian plain. From
continental West Siberia, it extends into the Kara Sea as the
East-Prinovozemelsky field.
 Beneath lie remnants of the Siberian traps, thought to be responsible for
the Great Dying 250 million years ago.
 West Siberian petroleum basin Contd.....

Figure 1: West Siberia structural map (left) and stratigraphic column (right)
(Ulmishek, G. 2021)
 West Siberian petroleum basin Contd.....

Figure 2: Southern part of West Siberia cross section (Ulmishek, G. 2021)

 West Siberian petroleum basin Contd.....

Figure 3: Northern part of West Siberia cross section (Ulmishek, G. 2021)

 West Siberian petroleum basin Oil and gas reserves

 The Western Siberian oil basin is the largest oil and gas
producing region in Russia. The oil extracted in this territory
accounts 70% of the oil produced in the country.
 Three total petroleum systems are identified in the West Siberian
basin. Volumes of discovered hydrocarbons in these systems are
144 billion barrels of oil and more than 1,300 trillion cubic feet
of gas. The assessed mean undiscovered resources are 55.2
billion barrels of oil, 642.9 trillion cubic feet of gas, and 20.5
billion barrels of natural gas liquids.
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 The largest known oil reserves are in the Bazhenov-Neocomian Total Petroleum System
that includes Upper Jurassic and younger rocks of the central and southern parts of the
basin. Oil reservoirs are mainly in Neocomian and Upper Jurassic clastic strata. Source
rocks are organic-rich siliceous shales of the Bazhenov Formation. Most discovered
reserves are in structural traps, but stratigraphic traps in the Neocomian clinoform
sequence are productive and are expected to contain much of the undiscovered
resources. Two assessment units are identified in this total petroleum system. The first
assessment unit includes all conventional reservoirs in the stratigraphic interval from the
Upper Jurassic to the Cenomanian. The second unit includes unconventional (or
continuous), self-sourced, fractured reservoirs in the Bazhenov Formation. This unit was
not assessed quantitatively.

 Almost all discovered reserves are in structural traps; however, stratigraphic traps in the
Neocomian interval probably contain large undiscovered gas resources. The onshore and
offshore parts of the total petroleum system were assessed as separate units because of
different exploration maturity and different infrastructure requirements. The onshore
area is substantially explored, especially in the shallow Aptian–Cenomanian sequence,
whereas only three exploratory wells have been drilled offshore. Undiscovered gas
potential of both assessment units is very high.
Oil & Gas fields in West Siberian petroleum basin

1.Kara Sea
2.Priobskoye Field
3.Salym Petroleum Development
4.*Samotlor Field*
5.Tunguska Basin
6.Yamburg gas Field
 BRIEF HISTORY OF SAMOTLOR FIELD
 The field was discovered in 1965. Development started in 1967 and first oil was produced
in 1969.Discovery of this field had changed Nizhnevartovsk from a small nearby village
into a busy oil city as Samotlor used to be the most important oil production base of the
Soviet Union. After breakup of the Soviet Union the field was owned by Samotlorneftgaz
and TNK-Nizhnevartovsk, which later formed TNK-BP.
 Over the all development period a total of 2,086 well clusters (containing more than
17,000 wells) have been built and about 2.6 billion tons of oil has been produced. The
peak production occurred in 1980 when Samotlor produced 158.9 million tons of oil
(7 Mbbl/d or 1.1×106 m3/d). The production has been in decline ever since, although

according to TNK-BP the field production has stabilized over the past last years after .
 SAMOTLAR FIELD

Figure 4 : Showing the Location of Samotlar Field ("OilVoice

- TNK-BP's Samotlor Field Declared the World's Sixth, 2021)
 RESERVES

 The in-place oil reserves of the Samotlor field were equal to 55 billion
barrels (8.7×109 m3) and as of 2009 estimated at 1 billion barrels
(160×106 m3). The proven reserves are approximately 44 billion barrels
(7.0×109 m3). The field is 80% depleted with water-cut up tp 90%.
 At the end of the 1990s, production rate dropped to 300,000 barrels per day
(48,000 m3/d). However, through an aggressive exploration program and
application of cutting-edge technologies TNK-BP had raised production up
to 750,000 barrels per day (119,000 m3/d). Up to 2012, TNK-BP plans to
invest US$1 billion per year for maintaining oil production in it at the level
of 30 million tons per year.
 RESERVES Contd.......

Figure 5: West Siberian petroleum basin oil and gas fields (Ulmishek, G. 2021)
 STRATIGRAPHY

Three megacycles are recognized in the sedimentary section of the Mesozoic-

Cenozoic platform sedimentary cover of the West Siberian Basin: Triassic-
Aptian, Aptian Oligocene, and Oligocene-Quaternary.
Predominantly continental sediments occur at the base of each megacycle
and largely marine or near-shore marine sediments at the top. The Triassic-
Aptian megacycle consists of the Tampey, Zavodoukov, Poludin, and
Sargat "series"*; the Aptian-Oligocene is composed of the Pokur, Derbyshin,
and Nazyvayev series; and the Oligocene Quarternary consists of the
Nekrasov and Burlin series (Kontorovich, 1975, p. 81).
 STRATIGRAPHY

 Tempay series: A few drill holes in the northern part of the

West Siberian Basin have penetrated Triassic marine and
continental sandy-clayey sediments of the Tempay series. These
beds appear to have a greater commonality with the upper
sedimentary cover than with the intermediate structural stage.
 The section consists of alternating dark gray shales, siltstones,
tuffaceous sandstones, and sandstones. Thicknesses of several
hundred meters have been penetrated by the drill; however,
seismic surveys indicate that thickness reaches 6000 m
(Kontorovich, 1975, p. 96).
 PRODUCTION AND RESERVES
Table 1: Production and Reserves - Samotlorskoye Field ("OilVoice - TNK-BP's
Samotlor Field Declared the World's Sixth, 2021)
 REFERENCES

1.Ulmishek, Gregory F. "West Siberian Oil Basin". PetroNeft Resources Plc.

Retrieved 22 August 2021.
2.Yermakov, Vitaly (September 2021).
Big Bounce: Russian gas amid market tightness (PDF) (Report). Oxford
Institute for Energy Studies. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
3."OilVoice - TNK-BP's Samotlor Field Declared the World's Sixth Biggest"
. web.archive.org. March 24, 2013. Archived from the original on August 31, 2021.
Retrieved September 27, 2021.
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