STRATEGY OF OIL AND GAS DEPOSITS PROSPECTING IN VISEAN-BASHKTRIAN FORMATIONS OF ASTRAKHAN DOME FOLD
Basic non-prospected hydrocarbon resources within the limits of Astrakhan dome are linked with Visean-Bashkirian oil and gas bearing complex in its peripheral part. Traps which are dated to zones of local (spot) fracturing should be referred to the top priority ones. Their summarized predicted resources make 2 billion tons of oil equivalent. Traps with big and average resources are dated to anticline structures within the limits of northeastern and western near-slope parts of the dome fold. Their summarized predicted resources make 6000 billion tons of oil equivalent.