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Aleksander N. Stafeev – PhD (Geology and Mineralogy), Associate Professor of Dynamic Geology Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University
1, Leninskie gory, Moscow, 119234, Russian Federation
e-mail: anstafeev@rambler.ru

Antonina V. Stoupakova – DSc (Geology and Mineralogy), Professor, Head of the Petroleum Geology Department, Head of the Petroleum Research Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University
1, Leninskie gory, Moscow, 119234, Russian Federation

Elizaveta A. Krasnova – PhD (Geology and Mineralogy), Senior Researcher, Petroleum Geology Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Senior Researcher, Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academу of Sciences
1, Leninskie gory, Moscow, 119234, Russian Federation

Anna A. Suslova – PhD (Geology and Mineralogy), Leading Researcher, Petroleum Geology Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University
1, Leninskiye Gory, Moscow, 119234, Russian Federation

Roman S. Sautkin – PhD (Geology and Mineralogy), Senior Researcher, Petroleum Geology Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University
1, Leninskiye Gory, Moscow, 119234, Russian Federation

Yana A. Shitova – PhD student, Petroleum Geology Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University
1, Leninskie gory, Moscow, 119234, Russian Federation

Maria L. Makhnutina – Graduate student of the Petroleum Geology Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University
1, Leninskie gory, Moscow, 119234, Russian Federation

Mikhail E. Voronin – Researcher, Petroleum Geology Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University
1, Leninskie gory, Moscow, 119234, Russian Federation