Regional petroleum geology
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pdf Nikolay Nikitich Rostovtsev and the opening West Siberian petroleum province
The article discusses the various stages of N.N. Rostovtsev research’s on substantiating the petroleum potential of Western Siberia. The first stage is associated with VSEGEI in Leningrad, where he and a team of researchers laid the foundations of the regional geology of Western Siberia, when they drew up a support drilling program, the partial implementation of which made it possible to open the Berezov gas-bearing region, determine the “oil face” of the Middle Ob region and marked the beginning of the discovery of gas in Cenomanian strata in the north of Western Siberia.
The next stage of research took place at SNIIGGiMS in Novosibirsk and its branch in Tyumen, later renamed ZapSibNIGNI, whose director was N.N. Rostovtsev. This period of research by Nikolai Nikitich is associated with a more detailed set of geological activity to substantiate the oil and gas potential of Western Siberia.
Based on the results of the research carried out by N.N. Rostovtsev is rightfully considered one of the discoverers who valued the West Siberian petroleum province.

Keywords: Nikolay Nikitich Rostovtsev, VSEGEI, SNIIGGiMS, ZapSibNIGNI, support drilling, West Siberian petroleum province.
article citation Borodkin V.N., Komgort M.V., Smirnov O.A. Nikolay Nikitich Rostovtsev i otkrytie Zapadno-Sibirskoy neftegazonosnoy provintsii [Nikolay Nikitich Rostovtsev and the opening West Siberian petroleum province]. Neftegazovaya Geologiya. Teoriya I Praktika, 2024, vol. 19, no. 2, available at: https://www.ngtp.ru/rub/2024/12_2024.html EDN: RECFJS
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