Prospects of oil and gas bearing of the Vietnamese mainland slope and adherent shelf of the South-Chinese Sea

Abstract

Over the Vietnamese shelf of the South China Sea in addition to oil deposits discovering in many structures the hydrocarbon searching (HC) were unsuccessful. According to the outcome analysis the authors come to conclusion about the presence in the region of hydrocarbons unconventional reservoir – the Caldera, and explain the reasons for negative working results. In light of the authors concept the structures found in Vietnamese shelf remain the discovery potentials. The identified features of the magmatogene deposit structure allow to use the proposed by authors hydrocarbon exploration technique explosives in regions with similar geological structure.