Prospects of Unconventional Hydrocarbons Reserves in Central Donets Basin and Pereddobruzkyi Downfold

Abstract

Article contains analysis of the reasons, why there are no discovered and no forecasted significant commercial reserves of free gas in the Central Donets Basin and Pereddobruzkyi downfold. Also there is a conclusion about the prospects of exploration surveys for unconventional hydrocarbons (retained gas in coal beds and shales, gas in tight sandstones).