Successfully operating in the USSR program of field tests and development of modern methods of enhanced oil recovery allowed in a short period to raise an additional oil production through the use of modern methods of oil recovery by 4 times. Due to the political and economic crisis associated with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the implementation of this national program was phased out. Currently, in order to overcome the negative trends of reproduction of resource base of oil industry the need to restore the state program of development and introduction of modern methods of enhanced oil recovery, as well as its economic stimulation.