SNIIGGiMS IN AUSTRALIA

V. S. Staroseltsev

Siberian Research Institute of Geology, Geophysics and Mineral Resources, Novosibirsk, Russia

The paper briefly describes the experience of Russian specialists in studying geological structure and substantiating the presence of a buried high promising for oil and gas in Central Australia. The authors report the experience of identifying tectonic lineaments under conditions of the constant movement of sand by a strong wind. For the first time, field survey results substantiated a regional thrust plate movement direction to the north the Finke River basin, being opposite to the direction approved by Australian specialists. The buried high in the Finke River loop, promising for oil and gas, was substantiated by a set of CDP seismic profiles and a hydrocarbon influx in a deep well.

Keywords: substantiation of a buried high promising for oil and gas, opposite direction of a regional thrust plate movement, the Finke River basin, buried high promising for oil and gas substantiated by a set of profiles.

DOI 10.20403/2078-0575-2017-6s-180-184