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Because of the hydrocarbon reserves reducing from traditional reservoirs in Russia, much attention is paid now to unconventional resources, such as the Domanik oil shales of the Volga?Ural Basin. The Domanik deposits consist of siliceous-clay-carbonate rocks enriched with organic matter and other components of oil in the dispersed state. They are Middle Frasnian source rocks and have low porosity and permeability. Domanik shales contains many oil occurrences and rare fields, which is primarily explained by the abs...

In the conditions of depletion of traditional energy resources, the development of hard-to-recover hydrocarbon resources is becoming increasingly important in the world economy. One of these potential sources of tight gas can be in carbonate-clay fractured reservoirs of the Cambrian deposits of Kazakhstan, located at the depth of about 6 km. The reservoir rocks consist of quartz, muscovite, albite, calcite, mixed layered clays, and chlorite. It is assumed that, the deposited particles from barite mud, which are us...