Confession of a Prospecting Geologist...

Aleksey E. KONTOROVICH

"y education background is in physics. Perhaps I would've become a good physicist if the fate had not willed me to come to the Siberian Research Institute of Geology, Geophysics and Mineral Resources (Novosibirsk) in 1958, two years after I had graduated from Tomsk University…"

Aleksey E. KONTOROVICH, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor in Geology and Mineralogy, Chairman of the RAS Scientific Council for Geology and Petroleum Exploration, Director of Institute of Petroleum Geology of the SB RAS (Novosibirsk); Committee Member of the YUKOS Petroleum company. Known as expert in petroleum geology, organic geochemistry, and mathematical geology. Co-author of the theory of oil and gas generation together with scientists A. A. Trofimuk, V. S. Surkov, and others; worked out the theoretical and practical grounds for prediction and discovery of oil in Precambrian reservoirs of East Siberia. Has contributed essentially to the exploration of the large petroleum provinces of West Siberia, Lena-Tunguska, and Khatanga-Vilyui. Co-author of development programs for the petroleum provinces of West and East Siberia and Yakutia.

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