DIRECT-PROSPECTING TECHNOLOGY OF SATELLITE IMAGES AND PHOTOGRAPHS FREQUENCY-RESONANCE PROCESSING: ABOUT EXPEDIENCY OF ITS PRACTICAL APPLICATION FOR HYDROCARBONS AND HYDROGEN SEARCHING AND DEEP STRUCTURE OF EARTH STUDYING

Abstract

The results of a survey in the reconnaissance mode of a local area on a seismic profile on the territory of Ukraine, as well as an assessment of the prospects for obtaining commercial oil and gas inflows in the areas where drilled and project wells are located on the shelf of the Gambia, Angola and Japan are presented. Experimental studies were carried out with the aim of additional approbation of direct-prospecting methods and improvement of methodological techniques of their application in the exploration process for oil, gas and natural hydrogen, as well as in the study of the deep structure of the structural elements of the Earth.

The developed mobile and low-cost technology include modified methods of frequency-resonance processing and decoding of satellite images and photo images, vertical electric-resonance sounding (scanning) of a cross-section, as well as a method of integrated assessment of the prospects of oil and gas potential of large prospecting blocks and license areas. Separate methods of this direct-prospecting technology are based on the principles of the “substance” paradigm of geophysical research, the essence of which is to search for a specific substance - oil, gas, gas condensate, water, gold, zinc, etc.

The results of the frequency-resonance processing of the photograph and the satellite image of the survey site indicate that it is promising for the detection of hydrocarbon deposits (oil, condensate and gas) in the cross-section and the expediency of carrying out prospecting works of a detailed nature within it. In the northern part of the research area, by instrumental measurements a basalt volcanic complex has been localized, which is promising for searching of natural hydrogen accumulations in the cross-section, as well as living water. In the course of the cross-section scanning, responses at gas frequencies (including intense ones) were recorded almost without interruption up to 5 km, which may indicate the presence of a deep channel within the surveyed area, through which oil, condensate and gas migrate from the synthesis boundary to the upper horizons of the cross-section. In the area near the city of Vasilkov, instrumental measurements confirmed the existence of a basalt volcano with hydrogen and living water, and a limestone-filled volcano was discovered in which there are conditions for the synthesis of oil, condensate and gas on the surface of 57 km. At the site of drilling a well on the Gambia offshore, the fundamental possibility of determining the depths and thicknesses of oil and gas bearing formations with non-commercial volumes of hydrocarbons is shown. The informativeness of the survey materials of the search area and local site on the Japan offshore is confirmed by the results of an exploratory well drilling within its boundaries. A volcanic complex, filled with the 1st-6th groups of sedimentary rocks, was discovered in the area of the examined block on the shelf of South Korea, in which there are conditions for the oil, condensate, and gas synthesis at the boundary of 57 km.

The results of the survey of the local area on the seismic profile indicate the advisability of direct-prospecting methods and technologies using when studying the deep structure of small areas and large blocks by geoelectric and seismic methods. The proven mobile technology of frequency-resonance processing of satellite images and photographs allows filling the studied cross-section with specific rocks (sedimentary, metamorphic and magmatic), as well as identifying areas on the surface and intervals in the cross-section that are promising for prospecting for ore and combustible minerals.