Assessment of environmental risks in exploration and development of oil and gas fields and ways to overcome them

Hydrocarbon raw materials, combining oil, gas and condensate, are the most important and most progressive type of mineral and energy resources at the current stage of development of human society. Hydrocarbon deposits, which are the basis for the oil and gas industry, are industrially developed in Ukraine. Oil fields are concentrated in three geographic and geological regions: 1) the Carpathian depression, or the western region (Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, and Chernivtsi regions); 2) Dnipro-Donetsk basin, or the eastern region (Chernihiv, Sumy, Poltava, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk regions); 3) Southern region (Odesa region).