26th Zilant Open Environmental Forum held at KFU
This year's theme was Flora of the Republic of Tatarstan and its Protection. The event united approximately 250 students in grades 8 to 11 from 39 schools in Kazan and 12 municipal districts of the Republic of Tatarstan, as well as the Republic of Mari El. Among the invited jury and guests were representatives of the...
Rector Lenar Safin meets with leadership of NOVATEK
The delegation included Vadim Yakovlev, First Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, and Vladimir Kudrin, Director for Geology, as well as representatives from LLC NOVATEK STC (Scientific and Technical Center), led by General Director Vladimir Soloviev. As part of the visit, a meeting was held with the Rector. In addition to the university’s experts, the meeting was attended by...
Polar explorer Fyodor Shipulin: “When you’re in Antarctica, you really want to go where it’s summer and there is green grass”
Kazan Federal University hosted a meeting with Fyodor Shipulin, an anesthesiologist and mountaineer who participated in the 69th Russian Antarctic Expedition. Students and schoolchildren of various ages, from first graders to eleventh graders, gathered at KFU's UNICS sports complex to hear the fascinating story of how a doctor became a polar explorer and what challenges he...
Cooperation development discussed with Gazprom Neft
The Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies hosted a delegation of Gazprom Neft employees. The introduction to the institute began with a meeting between the guests and Danis Nurgaliev, Vice-Rector for Earth Sciences and Director of the Gazprom Neft-KFU Research and Educational Center, along with representatives from the Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies: Deputy Director...
Institute holds final stage of secondary school contest in geology and petroleum science
More than 100 Russian school students in grades 5–11 competed in the finals. “The Olympiad consists of two rounds. The first, qualifying round was held using remote access technologies in November. Students whose work the jury recognized as the best were invited to the final (in-person) round - about 45 percent of all participants,” saidAndrey Teryokhin,...
Kazan Federal University scientists discover how to optimize geological exploration work by studying the strontium isotope content in conodonts
Scientists from the Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies (IGPT) have refined the strontium curve for the Devonian marine layers of the Volga-Ural oil and gas basin by investigating the strontium isotope content in conodonts—the tooth-like remains of small, free-swimming marine predators. The conodont elements, consisting of minerals from the apatite group, were selected from the...
Colchis PetroConsulting hands over software to teach geophysics students
Colchis PetroConsulting (China), a company specializing in software development for the oil and gas industry, has provided Kazan Federal University with 15 licenses for the ColchisFM software package. The software is now installed on computers at the Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies and will be used in the educational process, says Eduard Ziganshin, Chair of...
Kazan Federal University named Technological Partner of the Year by Gazprom Neft
Kazan Federal University has become one of the winners of the "Recognition of the Best" competition, which is held annually by Gazprom Neft. The university was recognized in the Reliable Partnership nomination (Technological Partner sub-category). "Gazprom Neft is one of Russia's most advanced oil and gas companies, both in terms of production volumes and management standards....
Kazan Federal University continues research into hydrothermal treatment of high-sulfur oils
Researchers at the Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies conducted a comprehensive study and identified the mechanisms of chemical processes that occur when steam and a catalyst precursor are injected during the development of high-sulfur heavy-oil fields. An urgent problem associated with developing unconventional reserves of heavy hydrocarbons with high sulfur content requires the introduction of...