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The Timan-Pechora Basin province of northwest Arctic Russia; Domanik, Paleozoic total petroleum system

Open-File Report 99-50-G
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https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr9950G

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The Domanik-Paleozoic oil-prone total petroleum system covers most of the Timan-Pechora Basin Province of northwestern Arctic Russia. It contains nearly 20 BBOE ultimate recoverable reserves (66% oil). West of the province is the early Precambrian Eastern European craton margin. The province itself was the site of periodic Paleozoic tectonic events, culminating with the Hercynian Uralian orogeny along its eastern border. The stratigraphic record is dominated by Paleozoic platform and shelf-edge carbonates succeeded by Upper Permian to Triassic molasse siliciclastics that are locally present in depressions. Upper Devonian (Frasnian), deep marine shale and limestone source rocks ? with typically 5 wt % total organic carbon ? by middle Mesozoic time had generated hydrocarbons that migrated into reservoirs ranging in age from Ordovician to Triassic but most focused in Devonian and Permian rocks. Carboniferous structural inversions of old aulacogen borders, and Hercynian (Permian) to Early Cimmerian (Late Triassic to Early Jurassic) orogenic compression not only impacted depositional patterns, but also created and subsequently modified numerous structural traps within the province.

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Lindquist, S.J., 1999, The Timan-Pechora Basin province of northwest Arctic Russia; Domanik, Paleozoic total petroleum system: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-50, 40 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr9950G.

ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title The Timan-Pechora Basin province of northwest Arctic Russia; Domanik, Paleozoic total petroleum system
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 99-50
Chapter G
DOI 10.3133/ofr9950G
Year Published 1999
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher location Reston, VA
Description 40 p.
Country Russia
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