By 2020, total increase in oil reserves to be over 6 billion tons
By 2020, the total increase in oil reserves will be over 6 billion tons, and natural gas - 12.6 trillion cubic meters, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Minister, Sergei Donskoy reported.
Over the past 5 years, the expanded reproduction of hydrocarbon reserves was noted; at the same time, the major part of the reserves was registered by results of geological exploration and new discoveries, not because of revaluation of the reserves. The Russian Minister of Natural Resources stressed the largest fields among 250 hydrocarbon deposits, discovered in 2009-2013. “Such large deposits of oil, like the field n.a. Savost'yanov with 160.2 million tons of reserves, the field n.a Lisovskogo (Preobrazhenskoye) with 113.5 million tons, the Sanarskoe field (94.6 million tons) in the Irkutsk region, the Baykalovskoe (51.9 million tons) in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Koltogorskoye (35.5 million tons) in the Khanty -Mansi autonomous district. As for the gas industry, large deposits of natural gas - the South Kirinskoye (259.9 billion cubic meters) in the Sea of Okhotsk,