To predict the petroleum potential, we used stratigraphic, tectonic, lithofacies, and geochemical criteria. We have considered their significance and estimated the petroleum potential from a total of criteria. The structures of the Toarcian, Pliensbachian, and Hettangian-Sinemurian regional reservoirs of the Lower Jurassic have been characterized. The low petroleum potential of the reservoirs is due to the following factors: intricate structure, low and very low values of capacity-filtration parameters of reservoir rocks, widespread sealing beds of poor and very poor quality, low oil-generating potential of source beds, and a high degree of catagenetic transformation of OM, as well as nearly ubiquitous saturation of reservoirs with formational waters.

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