Energy Potential of the Russian Arctic Seas

Preface1. Prospecting, exploration and development of oil-and-gas fields in the twentieth century1.1. Organization of oil production and delivery1.2. Oil exploration and production in the period until 19471.3. Oil exploration and production in the period 1947 – 19731.4. Oil exploration and production in the period 1973-19861.5. Oil exploration and production in the period 1986-20102. Sedimentary basins of the Barents and Kara seas2.1. Origination of current notions of geological structure and the evolutionary history of the region2.2. Structure of sedimentary cover in the region2.3. Geophysical fields and density models of the Earth’s crust2.4. Studies of the Earth’s crustal structure on geotraverses2.5. Specific features of region evolution in Jurassic-Cretaceous period based on studies of composition and magnetism of andesite-basalts in Franz Josef Land2.6. Earth’s crustal structure and distribution of oil-and-gas fields3. Sedimentary basins of the Laptev, East Siberian and Chukchi seas3.1. Generation of notions on the geological structure of the north-eastern seas of Russia3.2. Models of the Earth’s crust 3.3. Studies of the crustal structure on geotraverses3.4. Sedimentary cover characteristics of the region3.5. Basement structure, deep structure and evolution of the region4. Potential oil-and-gas presence in the sedimentary basins of the Arctic seas of Russia as compared with the largest developed basins of the World Ocean4.1. Morphological and geological characteristics of the largest sedimentary sea basins with proved oil-and-gas presence4.2. Sedimentary basins of the Atlantic and the Arctic oceans4.3. Sedimentary basins of the Persian Gulf, Caspian and Red seas, East Mediterranean4.4. Sedimentary basins of the Pacific and Indian oceans4.5. Density of hydrocarbon reserves in the large fields of the offshore provinces4.6. Productivity, development period, investments4.7. Potential resources of hydrocarbon raw materials in the offshore sedimentary basins in the Arctic seas of Russia4.8. Natural climatic features of the Arctic shelf and environmental safety of the operations5. Information support for offshore field development5.1. Geographic information analytical system on the objects of subsurface management in the shelf zones of the Russian Federation5.2. Evaluation of the influence of geoeconomic factors on the development of the fields in the Arctic seas of Russia5.3 Improvement of the approaches to economic geological evaluation6. Economic and institutional fundamentals of international cooperation in oil-and-gas resources development on the continental shelf6.1. Pattern of the international partnership formation in the sphere of offshore oil and gas production6.2 The public-private partnership in the organization of offshore hydrocarbon resources development6.3 The conceptual approaches to state regulation of oil-and-gas production on the continental shelf: foreign experience6.4. The role of the largest transnational energy companies (TNC) in the development of shelf hydrocarbonsConclusionsIndex