В монографии на примере главнейших нефтеносных бассейнов территории бывшего СССР установлена связь нефтепродуктивных образований с наличием перекрывающих глинистых отложений. В работе даны теоретические основы формирования свойств глинистых покрышек, рассматриваются процессы структурообразования глинистых осадков и описываются закономерности формирования их физических, фильтрационных и механических свойств.

The subject of project management has become one of the most common themes in the recent past, and that is due to the increase in the number of mega projects worldwide and the development of modern technology in all areas of knowledge, which requires new methods of project management to cope with fast-pace developing.

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill accident (variously referred to as the BP oil spill/disaster or the Macondo blowout) commenced on April 20th, 2010 on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect drilling platform. The ensuing fire aboard the drilling platform claimed eleven lives. Following the explosion and sinking of the fl oating oil rig, a sea-fl oor oil gusher fl owed for 87 days, until it was capped on July 15th, 2010. Th e total discharge has been estimated at 4.9 million barrels (780,000 m3), and the event was considered by some authorities to be the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. 

On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) platform drilling the Macondo well in Mississippi Canyon Block 252 exploded, killing 11 workers and injuring another 17. The DWH oil spill resulted in nearly 5 million barrels (approximately 200 million gallons) of crude oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico (GoM). The full impacts of the spill on the GoM and the people who live and work there are unknown but expected to be considerable, and will be expressed over years to decades.

The 1970s was a decade when the quest to understand petroleum drilling and production operations offshore acquired a new impetus. It was a time when global oil production surged on the heels of a rapidly growing world economy. India joined the bandwagon of offshore oil producing nations in 1974 following a momentous discovery of Bombay High. While oil producing nations rejoiced at the acquisition of captive resources, the lack of special techniques and equipment loomed onerously.

Учебно-методическое пособие предназначено для бакалавров, магистров и аспирантов Института геологии и нефтегазовых технологий направлений 05.03.01, 05.04.01, 1.6.11 очной и заочной форм обучения, для специалистов, обучающихся на курсах повышения квалификации Центра дополнительного образования, а также будет интересно широкому кругу геологов-нефтяников. Учебно-методическое пособие содержит сведения о научных основах геохимических методов прогнозирования нефтегазоносности, месте и роли геохимических методов в геологоразведочном процессе, об основных геохимических методах прогноза нефтегазоносности, а также примеры результатов применения геохимических методов.

The main geological results of exploration by the British Petroleum Company Limited since 1945 are outlined, and the general basis of operations described.
In the south of England new data emphasize the progressive development of the Wealden area as a Jurassic depositional basin, on a surface of mainly Devonian and Carboniferous rocks. In the East Midlands and West Yorkshire more information on the relation of Carboniferous basins is now available, and extensive occurrences of contemporary and intrusive basic igneous rocks are described.