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OIL GEOLOGICAL THINKING – NEW ASPECTS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

N. P. Zapivalov

A.A.Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, Novosibirsk, Russia

There is still controversy surrounding the origin of oil in the scientific world. In the last century, most scientists adhered to the organic (sedimentary and migrational) theory of the oil origin, but there are and there were certain contradictions and different points of view in this behalf. In the coming 21st century, contradictions and questions have not diminished. The author offers his own paradigm of formation and dynamics of the life of an oil pool and introduces the concept of an oil-and-gas field as an integral living fluid-rock system, the properties and parameters of which can change rapidly in a continuous mode under the influence of natural and man-made impacts in accordance with the laws of spontaneous self-regulation. Special attention is paid to the problem of risks and uncertainties in the petroleum engineering, the author also calls for careful extraction of oil-and-gas fields already under development and search for opportunities for their rehabilitation and replenishment.

Keywords: oil formation, living fluid-rock system, risks and uncertainties.

DOI 10.20403/2078-0575-2022-12s-65-69

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