Quantitative assessment of hydrocarbon resources is one of the main instruments of prediction of petroleum potential, substantiation of priority areas of geological exploration, and making strategic management decisions. Since 2017, VNIIOkeangeologiya has been updating the quantitative assessment of oil, gas and condensate resources of the Russian Federation continental shelf as of 01.01.2017. The considerable increase in geological and geophysical exploration maturity allowed updating and correction of geopetroleum zoning, characterising promising petroleum systems, substantiating the identified plays, and, eventually, quantification of HC resources for all 13 Russian Federation’s seas using the unified methodological approaches. Assessment using the probabilistic methods was for the first time conducted for the shelf of East Arctic seas. As a result, the Unified GIS Project was created that contains the structured digital data and resultant digital maps; and since 2020, the annual updating of these data is carried out in monitoring mode, including the completion of information and analytical base, revision of resource estimates, analysis of the current total initial HC resources.

Aleksandra K. Alekseeva
Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences,
Head of Department
All-Russian Scientific and Research Institute
of Geology and Mineral Resources
of the World Ocean,
1, Angliiskii prospect, St. Petersburg, 190121, Russia
email: akalexeeva@vniio.nw.ru

Sergei S. Arutyunyan
Leading Engineer
All-Russian Scientific and Research Institute
of Geology and Mineral Resources
of the World Ocean,
1, Angliiskii prospect, St. Petersburg, 190121, Russia
email: arutyunian.sergej@yandex.ru

Olga A. Vasil’eva
Candidate of Geography Sciences,
Leading Researcher
All-Russian Scientific and Research Institute
of Geology and Mineral Resources
of the World Ocean,
1, Angliiskii prospect, St. Petersburg, 190121, Russia
email: ovasilyeva@bk.ru

Olga N. Zuikova
Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences,
Leading Researcher
All-Russian Scientific and Research Institute
of Geology and Mineral Resources
of the World Ocean,
1, Angliiskii prospect, St. Petersburg, 190121, Russia
e-mail: zuykova50@mail.ru

Yulia N. Khokhlova
Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences,
Head of Sector
All-Russian Scientific and Research Institute
of Geology and Mineral Resources
of the World Ocean,
1, Angliiskii prospect, St. Petersburg, 190121, Russia
e-mail: j.hohlova@vniio.ru

Svetlana V. Prokoptseva
Head of Department
Yuzhmorgeologiya,
20, ul. Krymskaya, Gelendzhik, 353461, Russia
e-mail: prokoptsevasv@rusgeology.ru

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