The assessment of the possibility of using subsurface resources to create underground oil storage facilities of the federal reserve of hydrocarbon raw materials
Problems of choice of subsoil areas for making underground storage facilities of oil of the capacity 1 000 000 m<sup>3</sup> and more were addressed. Information on the types of underground oil storage facilities was provided. The experience of using subsoil for storing liquid hydrocarbons is summarized. Requirements were worked out for subsoil plots and rocks suitable for underground oil storage facilities. A map of zoning of geological formations within a 200 km zone, wich adjoins the existing, under construction and projected oil pipeline systems on the ter ritory of each federal district at a scale of 1:2 500 000 and a scale of 1:15 000 000 territory of Russia as a whole was compiled.