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The Timan-Pechora Basin Province of Northwest Arctic Russia:  Domanik – Paleozoic Total Petroleum System

by
Sandra J. Lindquist


SELECTED REFERENCES

Abrams, M.A., Apanel, A.M., Timoshenko, O.M., and Kosenkova, N.N., 1999, Oil families and their potential sources in the northeastern Timan Pechora basin, Russia: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 83, no. 4, p. 553-577.

Aleksin, A.G., Khromov, V.T., Melik-Pasheva, N.V., and others (?), 1995, Lithologic and stratigraphic traps, Timan-Pechora oil-gas province: Petroleum Geology, v. 29, n. 1-2, p. 16-25 (translation from Poiski Zalezhey Nefti i Gaza v Lovushkakh Neantiklinal’nogo Tipa: Moscow, Nedra, p. 137-146, 1985).

Alsgaard, P.C., 1992, Eastern Barents Sea Late Palaeozoic setting and potential source rocks, in Vorren, T.O., Bergsager, E., Dahl-Stamnes, O.A., Holter, E., Johansen, B., Lie, E., Lund, T.B., editors, Arctic geology and petroleum potential, Norwegian Petroleum Society (NPF) Special Publication No. 2: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., p. 405-418.

Bashilov, V.I., and Kuprin, V.F., 1995, Relationship of oil and gas fields and shows to faults in the Timan-Pechora basin: Petroleum Geology, v. 29, n. 11-12, p. 370-373 (translated from Otechestvennaya Geologiya, no. 2, p. 16-21, 1995).

Bazhenova, T.K., 1995, Scale of oil and gas generation in the Timan-Pechora basin, in Petroleum Exploration and Production in Timan-Pechora Basin and Barents Sea, collected reports of International Conference August 15-17, 1994: St. Petersburg, Russia, VNIGRI, p. 150-157.

Belonin, M.D., and Makarevich, V.N., 1995, Petroleum exploration and production in Timan-Pechora Basin and Barents Sea, Collected reports of International conference August 15-17, 1994: St. Petersburg, All-Russian Petroleum Scientific Research Geological Exploration Institute and Continental Shelf and petroleum Technology Research Institute, 224 p. 

Belyakov, S.L., 1994, Lower Permian paleostructural units of the Timan-Pechora region: Geotectonics, v. 28, no. 1, p. 33-43 (translation of Russian edition, also 1994).

Belyayeva, N.V., 1992, Effect of tectonic regime on the formation of upper Devonian reef zones of the Pechora platform: Petroleum Geology, v. 26, no. 9-10, p. 318-324 (translated from Tektonika Severo-Vostoka Evropeyskoy platformy: Akad. Nauk SSSR, Ural. Otdel., Komi Nauk Tsentr, Trudy Inst. Geol., no. 68, p. 60-72, 1988).

Bogatsky, V.I., Bogdanov, N.A., Kostyuchenko, S.L., Senin, B.V., Sobolev, S.F., Shipilov, E.V., and Khain, V.E., 1996, Explanatory notes for the tectonic map of the Barents Sea and the northern part of European Russia, scale 1:2,500,000: Moscow, Institute of the Lithosphere, Russian Academy of Sciences, 101 p.

Bogatsky, V., and Pankratov, J., 1993, Controls on the distribution of oil, gas, and gas-condensate pools in the Timan-Pechora basin (abs): American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 77, no. 9, p. 1608.

Bogdanov, B.P., Belyakov, C.L., Mikheyev, V.A., and Gerasimova, V.V., 1992, Non-anticlinal hydrocarbon traps in the Permian clastic sediments of the Pechora-Kolvin aulacogen: Petroleum Geology, v. 26, n. 5-6, p. 161-164 (translated from Neftegazoperspektivnyye ob’yekty Timano-Pechorskoy provintsii i metody ikh prognozirovaniya: Leningrad, VNIGRI, p. 86-93, 1990).

Bro, Y.G., and others, 1990, Parametric wells on Kolguyev Island: Petroleum Geology, v. 24, no. 9-10, p. 294-298 (translated from Sovetskaya Geologiya, no. 3, p. 82-88, 1988).

Dedeev, V., Aminov, L., and Schamel, S., 1994, Stratigraphic distribution of oil and gas resources of the Timan-Pechora basin: International Geology Review, v. 36, p. 24-32.

Dedeyev, V.A., Aminov, L.Z., Molin, V.A., and Yudin, V.V., 1993, Tectonics and systematic distribution of deposits of energy resources of the Pechora platform: Petroleum Geology, v. 27, no. 9-10, p. 324-335 (translated from Aktual’nyye problemy tektoniki SSSR, Nauka, p. 124-138, 1988).

Dedeyev, V.A., Aminov, L.Z., Malyshev, N.A., Pimenov, B.A., and Knyazhin, S.L., 1996, Rifting and oil-gas potential of the northeast of the European craton: Petroleum Geology, v. 30, n. 2, p. 153-159 (translated from Riftogeniz i neftegazonosnost’: Moscow, Nauka, p. 51-59, 1993).

Driscole, A., and Golden, M., 1995, Stratigraphy of the major hydrocarbon bearing basins, in Harrison, B., ed., Russian Style Formation Evaluation: London, The London Petrophysical Society and The Geology Society, p. 19-63.

Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., 1992, ArcWorld 1:3M digital database: Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI), available from ESRI, Redlands, CA, scale 1:3,000,000.

Ferriday, I.L., Borisov, A., Gudkova, A, Hall, P.B., Vinnikovsky, V., Bakken, K.A., and Bjoroy, M., 1995, Source rock potential and the characterization of finds in the Russian part of the Barents Sea, in Petroleum Exploration and Production in Timan-Pechora Basin and Barents Sea, collected reports of International Conference August 15-17, 1994: St. Petersburg, Russia, VNIGRI, p. 43-44.

Hall, P.B., Ferriday, I.L., Borisov, A., Gudkova, A., Vinnikovsky, V., and Bjoroy, M., 1995, Geochemical analysis of oils and source rocks from the off-shore, northern part of the Timano-Pechora area, in Petroleum Exploration and Production in Timan-Pechora Basin and Barents Sea, collected reports of International Conference August 15-17, 1994: St. Petersburg, Russia, VNIGRI, p. 136-137.

Heafford, A., 1993, The geology of Palaeozoic hydrocarbons in the eastern European USSR and their relevance to the Barents shelf, in Vorren, T.O., Bergsager, E., Dahl-Stamnes, O.A., Holter, E., Johansen, B., Lie, E., Lund, T.B., editors, Arctic geology and petroleum potential, Norwegian Petroleum Society (NPF) Special Publication No. 2: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., p. 261-271.

Ismail-Zadeh, A.T., Kostyuchenko, S.L., and Naimark, B.M., 1997, The Timan-Pechora basin (northeastern European Russia): tectonic subsidence analysis and a model of formation mechanism: Tectonophysics, v. 283, p. 205-218.

Ivanova, N.M., 1997, Prospective Palaeozoic reefs in the southern part of the Barents Sea shelf: Petroleum Geoscience, v. 3, p. 153-160.

Johansen, S.E., Ostisty, B.K., Birkeland, O., Fedorovsky, Y.F., Martirosjan, V.N., Bruun Christensen, O., Cheredeev, S.I., Ignatenko, E.A., and Margulis, L.S., 1993, Hydrocarbon potential in the Barents Sea region: play distribution and potential, in Vorren, T.O., Bergsager, E., Dahl-Stamnes, O.A., Holter, E., Johansen, B., Lie, E., Lund, T.B., eds., Arctic Geology and Petroleum Potential, Norwegian Petroleum Society (NPF) Special Publication No. 2: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., p. 273-320.

Kiryukhina, T.A., 1995, The types of oil in the Timan-Pechora basin: Moscow University Geology Bulletin, v. 50., n. 2, p. 19-26.

Klett, T.R., Ahlbrandt, T.S., Schmoker, J.W., and Dolton, G.L., 1997, Ranking of the world’s oil and gas provinces by known petroleum volumes: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 97-463, one CD Rom.

Kuranova, L.V., Plekhotkina, L.A., and Kosenkova, N.N., 1998, Conditions of sediment accumulation and formation of pools in Peschanoozer gas-condensate-oil field: Petroleum Geology, v. 32, n. 2, p. 151-156.

Kuznetsov, V.G., 1997, Oil and gas in reef reservoirs in the former USSR: Petroleum Geoscience, v. 3, p. 65-71.

Leith, T.L., Weiss, H.M., Mork, A., Arhus, N., Elvebakk, G., Embry, A.F., Brooks, P.W., Stewart, K.R., Pchelina, T.M., Bro, E.G., Verba, M.L., Danyushevskaya, A., and Borisov, A.V., 1992, Mesozoic hydrocarbon source-rocks of the Arctic region, in Vorren, T.O., Bergsager, E., Dahl-Stamnes, O.A., Holter, E., Johansen, E.L., and Lund, T.B., eds., Arctic Geology and Petroleum Potential, Norwegian Petroleum Society (NPF) Special Publication No. 2: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., p. 1-25.

Lobkovsky, L.I., Cloetingh, S., Nikishin, A.M., Volozh, Y.A., Lankreijer, A.C., Belyakov, S.L., Groshev, V.G., Fokin, P.A., Milanovsky, E.E., Pevzner, L.A., Gorbachev, V.I., and Korneev, M.A., 1996, Extensional basins of the former Soviet Union – structure, basin formation mechanisms and subsidence history: Tectonophysics, v. 266, p. 251-285.

Magoon, L.B., and Dow, W.G., 1994, The petroleum system, in Magoon, L.B., and Dow, W.G., eds., The Petroleum System – from Source to Trap: A.A.P.G. Memoir 60, p. 3-23.

Malyshev, N.A., Udin, V.V., and Schamel, S., 1991, Structural style and
evolution of the Pechora basin, USSR (abs): Amercian Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 75, no. 8, p. 1416.

Malysheva, E.O., Belyaeva, N.V., Maidl, T.V., and Ressetar, R., 1991, Sequence stratigraphy of the Pechora basin, northeastern Russian platform, USSR (abs): Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 23, n. 5, p. 294.

Malysheva, E.O., Belyaeva, N.V., Maidl, T.V., Ressetar, R., and Smale, J., 1992, Stratigraphic sequences and oil and gas complexes of the Pechora basin, northeastern Russian platform USSR (abs): Annual Meeting Program and Abstracts, 1992 Annual Convention, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), p. 79.

Martirosyan, V., Popova, L., and Vepreva, M., 1998, The petroleum systems of the Pechora Platform foreland, Russia: Petroleum Geoscience, v. 4, p. 339-348.

Meyerhoff, A.A., 1980, Petroleum basins of the Soviet Arctic: Geological Magazine, v. 117, no. 2, p. 101-186.

Mezhvilk, A.A., 1995, Thrust and strike-slip zones in northern Russia: Geotectonics, v. 28, n. 4, p. 298-305 (translated from Russian edition, 1994).

Nalivkin, D.V., 1960, The geology of the U.S.S.R., a short outline, International Series of Monographs on Earth Sciences – Volume 8: New York Pergamon Press, 170 p., includes 1:7,500,000 geologic map of U.S.S.R.

Nevskaya, N.M., 1995, New approach to oil and gas potential of Barents sea and Timan-Pechora basin: Proceedings of 27th Annual Offshore Technology Conference, v. 1, n. 1-4, Houston, TX, p. 519-524.

Nilsen, K.T., Hendriksen, E., and Larssen, G.B., 1993, Exploration of the later Palaeozoic carbonates in the southern Barents Sea – a seismic stratigraphic study , in Vorren, T.O., Bergsager, E., Dahl-Stamnes, O.A., Holter, E., Johansen, B., Lie, E., Lund, T.B., editors, Arctic geology and petroleum potential, Norwegian Petroleum Society (NPF) Special Publication No. 2: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., p. 393-403.

Oknova, N.S., 1993, Oil-gas prospects of the upper Permian – Mesozoic sediments of the Pechora – Barents sea basin: Petroleum Geology, v. 27, n. 1-2, p. 55-58.

Ostisty, B.K., and Fedorovsky, Y.F., 1993, Main results of oil and gas prospecting in the Barents and Kara Sea inspire optimism, in Vorren, T.O., Bergsager, E., Dahl-Stamnes, O.A., Holter, E., Johansen, B., Lie, E., Lund, T.B., editors, Arctic geology and petroleum potential, Norwegian Petroleum Society (NPF) Special Publication No. 2: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., p. 243-252.

Pairazian, V.V., 1993, Petroleum geochemistry of the Timano-Pechora basin: First Break, v. 11, no. 7, p. 279-286.

Petroconsultants, 1996, Petroleum exploration and production database: Petroconsultants, Inc., P.O. Box 740619, 6600 Sands Point Drive, Houston TX 77274-0619, USA, or Petroconsultants, Inc., P.O. Box 152, 24 Chemin de la Mairie, 1258 Perly, Geneva, Switzerland.

Preobrazhenskaya, E.N., Ustritskiy, V.I., and Bro, Ye.G., 1998, Paleozoic sediments of Kolguyev Island (Barents Sea): Petroleum Geology, v. 32, n. 2, p. 157-166.

Rostovshchikov, V.B., and others, 1991, Exploration for fields in reef deposits of the Pechora oil-gas basin by geological and geophysical methods: Petroleum Geology, v. 25, no. 5-6, p. 190-191 (translated from Pechora oil-gas basin: Trudy Inst. Geol. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Komi Filial, no. 61, p. 62-71, 1987).

Sagers, M.J., 1994, Observations on oil and gas production in the Timan-Pechora basin: International Geology Review, v. 36, p. 33-41.

Schamel, S., Malyshev, N.A., and Yudin, V.V., 1992, Structural inversion in the north Urals foreland, U.S.S.R. (abs): Annual Meeting Program and Abstracts, 1992 Annual Convention, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), v. 3, p. 114.

Schamel, S., Smale, J., Aminov, L., Pesetskaya, V., and Paneva, A., 1994, Petroleum systems of the Pechora basin, Russia (abs): Annual Meeting Program and Abstracts, 1994 Annual Convention, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), v. 3., p. 251.

Shimansky, V.K., Neruchev, S.G., Bazhenova, T.K., Prischepa, O.N., and Smirnov, S.V., 1995, Geochemical modelling of Timan-Pechora oil and gas basin on the basis of balance and kinetic models, in Petroleum Exploration and Production in Timan-Pechora Basin and Barents Sea, collected reports of International Conference August 15-17, 1994: St. Petersburg, Russia, VNIGRI, p. 128-135.

Smale, J.L., Wavrek, D.A., Quick, J.C., Schamel, S., Pesetskaya, V., Shlygin, D., and Puchkov, V., 1994, Comparison of upper Devonian "Domanik" source rock generative potential in west Uralian petroleum basins, Russia and Kazakhstan (abs): Annual Meeting Program and Abstracts, 1994 Annual Convention, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), p. 260-261.

Sobornov, K.O., and Bushuyev, A.S., 1992, Kinematics of the junction between the northern Urals and the Upper Pechora basin: Geotectonics, v. 26, no. 4, p. 290-298.

Sobornov, K., and Rostovshchikov, V., 1996, Structure and hydrocarbon prospects of the North Urals thrust belt: Petroleum Geoscience, v. 2, p. 177-184.

Sobornov, K.O., and Yakovlev, G.Y., 1996, Structural development and oil-gas potential of the Pechora-Kolva aulacogen: Petroleum Geology, v. 30, n. 2, p. 147-152 (translated from Riftogenez i neftegazonosnost’: Moscow, Nauka, p. 142-149, 1993).

Stupakova, A.V., 1992, Conditions of formation and oil-gas potential of Permian and Triassic deposits in the northern Timan-Pechora basin: International Conference on Arctic Margins, 1992 Proceedings, Anchorage, U.S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, p. 371-376.

Tarbayev, B.I., Belyakov, L.N., and Rasskazova, N.B., 1991, The Ordovician rift associations in the north of the CIS-Ural marginal depression: Doklady, Transactions of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences: Earth Science Sections, v. 311, no. 1-6, p. 117-120. 

Timoshenko, O.M., Kosenkova, N.N., Rassomakh, V.Ya., and Pinchuk, A.V., 1998, Oil-gas potential of the Korotaikha Depression: Petroleum Geology, v. 32, n. 2, p. 148-150 (translated from Razvedka i Okhrana Nedr, no. 5, p. 25-28, 1997).

Tuttle, M.L.W., Lillis, P.G., and Clayton, J.L., draft, Molecular stratigraphy of the Devonian Domanik Formation, Timan-Pechora basin, Russia.

Ulmishek, G., 1982, Petroleum geology and resource assessment of the Timan-Pechora basin, USSR, and the adjacent Barents-northern Kara shelf: Argonne, IL, Argonne National Laboratory, Energy and Environmental Systems Division, Report ANL/EES-TM-199, 197 p.

Ulmishek, G., 1988, Upper Devonian – Tournaisian facies and oil resources of the Russian craton’s eastern margin, in McMillan, N.J., Embry, A.F., and Glass, D.J., Devonian of the World, Volume I: Regional Syntheses: Calgary, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, p. 527-549.

Zakcharov, E.V., and Kulibakina, I.B., 1997, Oil-gas prospects of Triassic complex on shelf of Barents and Pechora seas: Petroleum Geology, v. 31, n. 3, p. 260-265.

Zakcharov, E.V., Kulibakina, I.B., and Bogoslovskaya, G.N., 1993, The Jurassic complex is an object of oil and gas prospecting in the Barents Sea, in Vorren, T.O., Bergsager, E., Dahl-Stamnes, O.A., Holter, E., Johansen, B., Lie, E., Lund, T.B., editors, Arctic geology and petroleum potential, Norwegian Petroleum Society (NPF) Special Publication No. 2: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., p. 257-260.

Zhemchugova, V.A., and Schamel, S., 1994, Carboniferous – Lower Permean carbonate reservoirs of the Timan-Pechora basin: International Geology Review, v. 36, p. 15-23.


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