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 the Department of Geophysics and Geo-information Technologies at the institute.
“At the end of 2025, KFU and the company signed an agreement under which the university, free of charge, received the software developed by the company. It is intended to teach bachelor’s students the fundamentals of seismic interpretation and seismic modeling,” he notes.
Ziganshin met representatives of Colchis PetroConsulting in the fall of 2025 at a conference in Beijing.
“There we managed to reach an agreement on using ColchisFM to train our students,” he says. “The use of modern digital tools is an important element in developing practical competencies in future specialists. For its part, the university plans to take part in testing new software solutions and to provide developers with expert feedback.”
Now it will be easier for students in the geophysics program to understand how rock properties are linked to seismic data.
“The program makes it possible to translate information about the structure and composition of layers in the sedimentary cover into seismic images used by geologists and geophysicists when studying the subsurface,” the interviewee explains. “It automatically models the propagation of seismic waves and shows what the rock masses being studied will look like on seismic sections.”
According to Senior Lecturer Ruzil Sitdikov, the software will make it possible to model seismic waves for various versions of geological environment models.
“By building a model of the study object, we can see its response in an artificially generated wave field. For example, after describing any oil or gas field, we can run modeling and understand its exploration indicators. This is what our third- and fourth-year geophysics students will be learning. The competencies they gain will be useful in their future professional work,” Sitdikov says.
As the experts point out, ColchisFM stands out for a high degree of automation and ease of use, making it an excellent tool for geologists, seismic interpretation specialists, reservoir data inversion experts, as well as teachers and students.
