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In the past few decades it has been evident that various human activities can induce local seismic activity. One of the important factors of human induced seismicity is hydrocarbon fields? development [6], [12]. One of the regions with probable induced seismicity is Tatarstan Republic where a giant Romashkino oilfield has been produced for a several decades. The link between seismicity and hydrocarbon production for this area was previously studied [1]. In this study the attempt has been made to find possible refl...

Today, the share of high-viscosity oil and natural bitumen in explored reserves is growing very rapidly and, thus, the volume of production of this unconventional hydrocarbons is growing. World oil reserves amount to about 320 billion tons of heavy oils and bitumen, mainly concentrated in Canada and Venezuela. More regarding the amount of bitumen reserves, is the territory of the Volga-Ural province, where the concentration ranges between 4.7 to 18 billion tons. The wide development of high-viscosity oil and natur...