The raw-material base is the base which all extracting enterprises cost on. Three basic directions on gainning stocks are in detail described: prospecting works, purchase of new stocks at competitions and auctions and development of scientific approaches to studying bowels with a view of application of the newest methods of oilextraction. Work of Open Society «Surgutneftegaz» in these areas has been studied. In particular the special attention is given to consideration of the scientific party of this process, namely efficiency of development of already maintained deposits. In connection with complication of conditions of extraction of a mineral, the expenses connected with investigation and operation of deposits raise. The major value in oil-and-gas branch gots the technologies promoting decrease of capital expenses for development of deposits. And first of all it is ways of development of oil-and-gas deposits, and also restoration of their efficiency at a late stage of operation. In this clause there are concrete examples of the decision of tasks in view are resulted.
