This is what the Natural Resources Minister of Russia, Sergey Donskoy, announced today on his account in a social network. According to him, the provided data mostly regards the traditional resources.
Technology of oil extraction of the non-traditional resources, such as Bazhenovskaya Svita, are in the developmental stage.
In prospect, with the technologies of the non-traditional hydrocarbons’ extraction being developed, Russian resources of oil are to significantly increase.
As for the so-called “commercially exploitable oil reserves”, their volume on the territory of the Russian Federation amounts to nearly 14 bln tons or 102 bln barrels, indicated Sergey Donskoy.
