The article deals with the issue of carbonate strata of complex geological structure development efficiency improving. Such facilities, as a rule, have deteriorated reservoir properties, parameter anisotropy and are complicated by secondary cavernosity. All of these factors affect the recovery efficiency and are often reflected in development indicators. On the example of Tournaisian stage deposits an example of a methodological approach to the development analysis which takes into consideration various geological factors is presented. As a result, various dependencies were obtained, which when taken into account determin the most promising areas in terms of development efficiency. The issues of the waterflooding system efficiency and the ways of its efficiency increasing are considered separately. Keywords: oil fields development; carbonate reservoirs; development efficiency; waterflooding system.

he paper analyzes the implemented system for the oil deposits of the Tournaisian tier of the Znamenskoye field development, as well as factors reducing its effectiveness, assessment of the features of the geological structure affecting oil production, and the development of proposals to improve the development system efficiency. It is noted that during the development of the field, the geological structure of the Tournaisian tier oil deposits has significantly changed because of the additional study of the development facility, the high efficiency of the use of horizontal wells has been confirmed. It shows an increase in the initial well flow rate and the specific accumulated oil production per meter of oil-saturated reservoir thickness, a decrease in the initial water content of well production, the growth rate of water content, a decrease in the accumulated oil-water factor for the first year of well operation, depending on the increase in the capacity of the bridge between the oil and water-saturated layers. Keywords: oil reserves production; bridge; oil recovery factor; oil-water factor; well.