Moscow sedimentary basin: unconventional hydrocarbon resources
Pre-Devonian part of sedimentary rocks of the Moscow sedimentary basin, which occupies the eastern part of the Russian plate, still remains virtually unexplored. Analyzing the drilling results, geological data, reinterpreted previous surveys results suggest the existence of undiscovered hydrocarbons in the depths of the sedimentary sequence of the region including unconventional hydrocarbon resources. Moscow sedimentary basin has the potential to discover them in the areas of traps development: shale gas, timed to Vendian Redkino suite; shale oil, coupled with rich organic mudstones of Cambrian and Ordovician age, and subjected to trap metamorphism, that allowed reaching the main oil formation stage.