Nikolai Alexandrovich Kudryavtsev

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Nikolai Kudryavtsev

Nikolai Kudryavtsev , Russian Николай Александрович Кудрявцев , English transcription Kudryavtsev, (* 21st October 1893 in Opochka ; † 12. December 1971 in Leningrad ) was a Soviet petroleum geologist, known for its abiotic theory of the origin of oil and gas.

Life

Kudrjawzew studied at the Mining Institute in Leningrad and was from 1920 as a geologist at the Geological Committee, from 1929 at the All-Union Institute for Geological Research (WNIGRI). In 1936 he completed his habilitation ( Russian doctorate ) and in 1941 he became a professor in Leningrad. During the Stalin era he was in the gulag for a few years and was then not allowed to stay in the metropolises of the Soviet Union.

He discovered some oil and gas fields, for example in Chechnya ( Grozny region ), Central Asia and in arctic regions ( Timan Ridge , Pechora region ). He prospected in Georgia and from 1947 organized a successful exploration program for oil and gas exploration in Western Siberia.

Since 1951 he advocated an outsider theory of the non-biological formation of oil and gas fields. Given the large amount of hydrocarbons in Canada's Athabasca oil sands , he considered organic origin to be unlikely. He discussed several examples in which hydrocarbons were found in places that spoke against a biological formation, which is explained by the majority of geologists as a consequence of the migration of the hydrocarbons into neighboring rock. According to Kudrjawzew, the hydrocarbons came from the earth's mantle and migrated (in the form of methane) from there to the storage rocks of the earth's crust, where they were partially biologically transformed. He expanded the theory further, published books about it and found a number of followers among Soviet geologists such as the petroleum geologist Vladimir Porfirjew (1899–1982), professor in Lviv and Kiev . In the West, Thomas Gold was the best-known proponent of this theory, which the vast majority of geologists and geochemists had disproved and which had precursors in ideas of the 19th century (the chemist Dmitri Mendeleev was a well-known follower ). Kudryavtsev and his followers used the theory as a basis for their search for oil and gas. Here he formulated Kudrjawzew's rule: if you find hydrocarbons in one layer, you will also find them in other layers and possibly in a different form down to the basement, whereby natural gas should generally be located deepest.

Fonts

  • Deep faults and oil fields , Leningrad 1963 (Russian)
  • Oil, gas and solid bitumen in igneous and metamorphic rocks , VNIGRI Proc., 1959 (Russian)
  • Origin of Oil and Gas , Leningrad 1973 (Russian)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ MS Vassiliou, entry by Nikolai Kudryavtsev , in: The A to Z of the Petroleum Industry, Scarecrow Press 2009
  2. ↑ An introduction to the modern petroleum science, and to the Russian-Ukrainian theory of deep, abiotic petroleum origins.
  3. ↑ The Neptunists around Abraham Gottlob Werner and his successors declared volcanism as a secondary phenomenon, fed by the burning of underground coal deposits
personal data
SURNAME Kudryavtsev, Nikolai Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Кудрявцев, Николай Александрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian geologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1971
Place of death Leningrad