Another Tomsk company will search for oil and gas in the region

TOMSK, Mar 26 – RIA Tomsk. NeftInnovatsiya received the right to use subsoil at two sites in the Kargasok and Bakcharsk districts of the Tomsk region, where the search and assessment of hydrocarbon deposits will be carried out, the press service of the regional administration said on Friday.

"The commission for consideration of issues on granting the right to use subsoil plots made a decision on granting the subsoil use right to Research and Production Enterprise OOO NeftInnovatsiya for the purpose of geological exploration of the Yuzhno-Konechny (Kargasok district) and Rusinovsky subsoil plots (Bakcharsk district)... Geological study provides for prospecting and evaluation of hydrocarbon deposits," informs the press service.

In the message of the regional administration, it is specified that the right to use subsoil plots is granted for five years. The search for raw materials will be carried out at the expense of the company.

"OOO Research and Production Enterprise NeftInnovatsiya has been engaged in projects for the search and exploration of promising subsoil areas for hydrocarbon raw materials since 2018. One of the main founders of the enterprise is the Institute of Petroleum Chemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences," the press service of the regional administration added.

As an employee of the regional subsoil management department explained to RIA Tomsk, in the territories of these areas, work on the search for hydrocarbon deposits has never been carried out.

Earlier it was reported that the reserves of traditional oil fields in the Tomsk region are running out, in 2025 this will lead to a reduction in production from 10 to 5 million tons per year. Gazprom Neft has launched the Paleozoic project in the region to develop hard-to-recover oil reserves from pre-Jurassic deposits.

In 2020, 21.9 billion rubles were invested in the oil and gas industry in the Tomsk region, the total investment in the economy and social sphere of the region amounted to 10.2 billion rubles.