Sedlerova O. Substantiation of integral technique for forecasts of petroleum-promising targets in the Ukrainian part of the Sea of Azov using remote sensing data.

The thesis is devoted to scientific substantiation of an integral technique for forecasts of petroleum-promising targets using remote sensing data. The top priority of this study is determined by the necessity to use low-cost forecast and assessment methods in the Ukrainian part of the Sea of Azov under conditions of deficit financing of prospect drilling and seismics. To obtain this aim, the study solves a number of tasks: a set of landscape and geomorphic indicators is substantiated for geological structure of the Ukrainian part of the Sea of Azov and neotectonic activity of deep tectonic dislocations and blocks; a forming model is developed for spectral brightness of the sea surface over neotectonically active structures; interpretation signs of landscape and geomorphic indicators are determined; neotectonics of the studied region is modeled through analysis of geological, geophysical, structural-geomorphic evidences and results of processing and interpretation of aerospace images; structural-tectonic and petroleum-geological zonation of the Ukrainian part of the Sea of Azov is specified; petroleum promises are evaluated (zones of hydrocarbon fields concentration; petroleum-promising and forecast-promising targets); top-priority petroleum-promising targets are recognized using rating evaluations on a set of criteria (spectral brightness, neotectonic, structural-geomorphic, geological-geophysical, petroleum-geological) that became the basis to determine principal directions in oil and gas prospecting. Key words: data of remote sensing of the Earth, neotectonic activity, landscape-geomorphic indicators, petroleum-promising targets.