Oil and gas deposits of Domanic type - a reserve to maintain hydrocarbons production in commercially developed areas.
Timan-Pechora and Volga-Ural provinces of Eastern European platform are referred to industrial developed areas of oil production with the deteriorating structure of residual hydrocarbon reserves, forcing to search for new reserves of raw materials growth, including unconventional sources of hydrocarbons - shale strata. The top priority for the study and evaluation of their territories are complexes of Domanic and Domanician shale deposits.