DIRECT-PROSPECTING METHODS OF SATELLITE IMAGES AND PHOTO IMAGES FREQUENCY-RESONANCE PROCESSING: RESULTS OF APPLICATION FOR NATURAL HYDROGEN ACCUMULATIONS SEARCHING IN URUGUAY

Abstract

The article presents a brief description of projects for the Uruguay territory surveying in the reconnaissance mode in order to identify promising areas and sites for detailed prospecting for oil and gas, natural hydrogen. Prepared projects of reconnaissance survey of Uruguay territory can be quickly implemented with using the mobile and low-cost technology, that include modified methods of frequency-resonance processing and decoding of satellite and photo images, vertical electric-resonance sounding of a cross-section, as well as a method of integrated assessment of the prospects of oil and gas potential of large prospecting blocks and license areas. For these projects practical implementation, the satellite image of the Uruguay territory is divided into separate blocks (fragments), the frequency-resonance processing of which may be carried out separately. During frequency-resonance processing of each fragment of the Uruguay territory image in the reconnaissance mode for natural hydrogen searching, a limited set of instrumental measurements of the following nature may be performed separately: a) procedure for recording signals (responses) at frequencies of the 6th group of igneous rocks (basalts); b) the procedure for determining the depth of basalt volcano root (in the case of fixing responses from the surface at basalt frequencies); c) procedures for fixing signals (responses) at the frequencies of hydrogen, phosphorus (red) and hydrogen bacteria; d) instrumental measurements to confirm (or establish absence) of hydrogen migration into atmosphere. The expediency of implementing the listed set of instrumental measurement procedures during the survey is due to results of direct-prospecting methods testing in various regions of globe. The materials of numerous studies allow us to state following: a) responses at hydrogen frequencies are recorded almost everywhere during instrumental measurements in the contours of basalt volcanic complexes; b) red phosphorus is almost always present in basalt volcanoes; c) hydrogen bacteria create their colonies in the upper part of cross-section in the areas of hydrogen migration into the atmosphere. The developed super-mobile direct-prospecting technology has provided the authors with a unique opportunity to conduct a huge number of experiments in various regions of the globe. In the process of experimental work conducting, numerous evidence was obtained in favor of the deep (abiogenic) genesis of hydrocarbons in the framework of the concept of hydrogen degassing of the Earth. The proven technology allows filling the studied cross-section with specific rocks (sedimentary, metamorphic and magmatic), as well as identifying areas on the surface and intervals in the cross-section that are promising for ore and combustible minerals prospecting. The super-mobile methods can be used to assess the prospects for oil and gas (ore) potential of large exploration blocks and local areas (including those put up for auction), to select the optimal locations (sites) for laying exploration and production wells, assessment of the prospects for discovering oil and gas deposits in the deep and super-deep horizons of cross-section, prospecting and localization of zones with deep channels location, through which the chemical elements, fluids and mineral matter migrate into the upper horizons of cross-section. The use of mobile and low-cost technology will significantly speed up the exploration process for oil, condensate, gas, natural hydrogen, as well as reduce the financial costs for its implementation.