Ukrainian Antarctic Journal

No 9 (2010): Ukrainian Antarctic Journal
Articles

About new oil and gas prospects of the Antarctic margin

PDF (Українська)
  • V. D. Solovyov,
  • V. G. Bakhmutov,
  • I. N. Korchagin,
  • S. P. Levashov,
  • N. A. Yakymchuk,
  • D. N. Bozhezha
V. D. Solovyov
S. I. Subbotin Institute of geophysics of NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv
V. G. Bakhmutov
S. I. Subbotin Institute of geophysics of NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv
I. N. Korchagin
S. I. Subbotin Institute of geophysics of NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv
S. P. Levashov
Center for Management and Marketing in Earth Sciences, IGS of NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Institute of Applied Problems of Ecology, Geophysics and Geochemistry, Kyiv
N. A. Yakymchuk
Center for Management and Marketing in Earth Sciences, IGS of NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Institute of Applied Problems of Ecology, Geophysics and Geochemistry, Kyiv
D. N. Bozhezha
Center for Management and Marketing in Earth Sciences, IGS of NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Institute of Applied Problems of Ecology, Geophysics and Geochemistry, Kyiv
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33275/1727-7485.9.2010.392
Published December 15, 2010
Keywords
  • Antarctic margin,
  • hydrocarbon deposits,
  • geophysical data
How to Cite
Solovyov, V. D., Bakhmutov, V. G., Korchagin, I. N., Levashov, S. P., Yakymchuk, N. A., & Bozhezha, D. N. (2010). About new oil and gas prospects of the Antarctic margin. Ukrainian Antarctic Journal, (9), 49-61. https://doi.org/10.33275/1727-7485.9.2010.392

Abstract

The results of investigations in 2006-2010 for oil and gas in the Antarctic Peninsular region are given. In 2004 and 2006, the geoelectric research by methods of forming a short-pulsed electromagnetic field (FSPEF) and vertical electric-resonance sounding (VERS) have been conducted from shipboard in this region. The "deposit" type anomaly was mapped by FSPEF survey, and anomalous polarized layers of "hydrocarbon deposit" type were chosen by VERS sounding within this anomaly on Antarctic margin. The anomalous zones of “oil deposit” type were mapped also on Antarctic Peninsular margin in the region of UAS "Academician Vernadsky" and anomalous zones of “gas hydrate deposit” type were revealed at the South Shetland margin. The investigation results confirm the high oil and gas potential of the West Antarctica region. The special technology of satellite data processing and interpretation can be used for the hydrocarbon accumulations prospecting and exploration in remote regions such as Antarctic and Arctic areas.

PDF (Українська)

References

  1. Anfilatova, E.A. (2008). Analiticheskii obzor sovremennyh zarubezhnyh dannyh po probleme rasprostranenia gazogidratov v akvatoriiah mira [Analytical review of the current foregn data to the problem of the gas-hydrates' distribution in world akvatoriums]. Neftegazovaia geologia. Teoria i praktika, 3, 1-8. (In Russian)
  2. Ivanov, V.L. (1985). Geologicheskie predposylki prognoza neftegazonosnosti nedr Antarktiki [Geological premises of the forecast of the Antarctic oil and gas prospects]. Sovetskaia geologiia, 2, 3-14.
  3. Kovalev, N.I., Goh, V.A., Soldatova, S.V., & Liamtseva, I.V. (2009). Ispolzovaniie distantsionnogo geologicheskogo kompleksa "Poisk" dlia obnaruzheniia i okonturivaniia uglevodorodnyh miestorozhdenii [Using remote geological complex Poisk to discover and contour hydrocarbon fields]. Geoinformatika, 3, 83-88. (In Russian)
  4. Kutas, R.I., Kobolev, V.P., Tsviashenko, V.A., Kravchuk, O.P., & Bevziuk, M.I. (1996). Geotermicheskie aspekty obrazovaniia gazogidratov v Chernomorskoi vpadine [Geothermal aspects of gas-hydrate origin in the Black Sea depression]. Geofizicheskii zhurnal, 18(3), 20-28. (In Russian)
  5. Levashov, S.P., & Peschanyi, Yu.M. (2004). Kartograficheskie materialy rezultatov geoelektricheskih rabot v raione Antarkticheskogo poluostrova [Cartographic materials of the geoelectic survey in the region of the Antarctic Peninsula]. Materialy IX Ukrainskoi Antarkticheskoi ekspeditsii. Kyiv. (In Russian)
  6. Levashov, S.P., Bakhmutov, V.G., Korchagin, I.N., Pischanyi, Yu.M., & Yakymchuk, N.A. (2006). Geoelektricheskie issledovaniia vo vriemia provedeniia sezonnyh rabot 11-i Ukrainskoi antarkticheskoi ekspeditsii [Geoelectric research during the seasonal works of the 11th Ukrainian Antarctic expedition]. Geoinformatika, 2, 24-33. (In Russian)
  7. Makogon, Yu.F. (2010). Gazogidraty. Istoriia izucheniia i perspektivy osvoieniia [Gas-hydrates. History of research and prospects of development]. Geologiia i polieznye iskopaiemye Mirovogo okeana, 2(20), 5-21. Kyiv. (In Russian)
  8. Matvieieva, T.V., & Soloviev, V.A. (2004). Geologicheskii kontrol skoplenii gazovyh gidratov na hrebte Bleik-Auter, Severnaia Atlantika [Geologic control of the gas-hydrate fields on the Blake Outer Ridge, N Atlantics). Geologiia i geofizika, 43(7), 662-671. (In Russian)
  9. Udintsev, G.B., & Shenke, G.V. (2004). Ocherki geodinamiki Zapadnoi Antarktiki [Essays on the W Antarctic geodynamics]. Moscow, GEOS. (In Russian)
  10. Shniukov, Ie.F., Gozhyk, P.F., & Kraiushkin, V.A. (2007). V treh shagah ot submarinovoi dobychi gazogidratov [Three steps away from submarine harvesting of gas-hydrates]. Geologiia i poleznye iskopaiemye Mirovogo okeana, 2 , 32-51. Kyiv. (In Russian)
  11. Haacke, R.Ross., Westbrook, G.K., & Hyndman, Roy D. (2007). Gas hydrate, fluid flow and free gas: Formation of the bottom-simulating reflector. EPSL, 261(2), 407-420.
  12. Jin, Y.K., Lee, M.W., Kim, Y., Nam, S.H., & Kim, K.J. (2003). Gas hydrate volume estimations on the South Shetland continental margin, Antarctic Peninsula. Antarctic Science, 15(2), 271-282.
  13. Kvenvolden, K.A., & Lorenson, T.D. (2001). The global occurrence of natural gas hydrate. In: C.K. Paull & W.P. Dillon (Eds.), Natural Gas Hydrates, Occurrence, Distribution, and Detection. Geophysical Monograph. Vol. 124, 3-18. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, USA.
  14. Solovyov, V.D., Bakhmutov, V.G., Korchagin, I.N., & Levashov, S.P. (2009). Crustal structure of Palmer Deep (West Coast of the Antarctic Peninsula) by geophysical data. Ukrainian Antarctic Journal, 8, 85-93.
  15. Tinivella, U., Accaino, F., & Camerlenghi, A. (2002). Gas hydrate and free gas distribution from inversion of seismic data on the South Shetland margin (Antarctica). Marine Geophysical Researches, 23, 109-123.
  16. Trehu, A.M., Ruppel, C., Holland, M., Dickens, G.R. et al. (2006). Gas Hydrates in marine sediments. Oceanography, 19(4), 124- 142.