Conference

Contemporary Geographical Education: Challenges, Opportunities, Solutions Forum held at KFU

Among the participants were KFU representatives: Vice-Rector for Earth Sciences Danis Nurgaliev; Deputy Director of IGPT for Academic Affairs Andrey Teryokhin; Chair of the Department of Geography and Cartography Elena Pudovik; Chair of the Department of the Theory and Methodology of Geographical and Environmental Education Ruslan Ulengov; Professor Ilgizar Gaisin, and others. The ranks of invitees also included other KFU employees,...

5th International Scientific Conference on Catalytic Upgrading of Heavy Oil hosted at IGPT

Participants from Russia, Mexico, India, Bulgaria, Yemen, Kuwait, Chad, Algeria, Iraq, Egypt, and CIS countries gathered for a two-day event at Kazan Federal University, welcomed by Vice-Rector Danis Nurgaliev and Director of the Small Tonnage Chemical Technology Park Mikhail Varfolomeev. Dr Nurgaliev highlighted the event's focus on environmentally friendly and cost-effective methods for extracting hard-to-recover oil...

Matvey Semyonov speaks about gas hydrate research at Production, Preparation, and Transportation of Oil and Gas International Conference in Tomsk

His plenary report Research of Hydrate Formation of Associated Petroleum Gas was featured at the big event dedicated to the 55th anniversary of the Institute of Petroleum Chemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The researcher shed light on the influence of promoters on the hydrate formation process. "A significant portion of associated...

IGPT expert represented at the Development of Small Cities and Historical Settlements Forum in Kazan

The forum was held on 20 and 21 August at Kazan Expo. The event was headlined by the Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Mishustin and featured Vice Premier of Russia Dmitry Grigorenko, Vice Premier of Russia Marat Khusnullin, Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, Minister of Construction and Utilities of Russia Irek Faizullin, and others. Associate Professor...

Carbonate Sediments 2025 Conference opens at KFU

On 13 - 15 August, the participants are discussing pertinent questions of this niche topic. Deputy Director for Marketing of the Gazpromneft-KFU Center Vladislav Sudakov explains, "This conference unites young and experienced researchers of carbonate sediments for a second year in a row. We try to make it interesting." Acting Director of the Institute Vladimir Silantyev...

Digitization of the oil and gas industry discussed at offsite session

The event took place at Kyzyl Il village, Laishevsky District, Tatarstan, on 5 and 6 August. Deputy Director for Marketing of the Gazpromneft-KFU Center Vladislav Sudakov informs, "We are discussing digitization and neural network technology for a fifth time. There are over 100 employees of universities and companies from Russia, Oman, and Kazakhstan, sharing their experience...

KFU represented at Tatarstan Oil Summit in Almetyevsk

The event took place on 11 July at Almetyevsk State Technological University - Higher School of Petroleum with participation of Vice Premier of Russia Alexander Novak, Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, and Aide to the President of Russia Ruslan Edelgeriev. Kazan Federal University was represented by Vice-Rector for Earth Sciences Danis Nurgaliev and Deputy Director...

Hydrogeology, geochemistry and hydrodynamic modeling discussed at Practice GeoChemistry 2025

The annual conference is held at IGPT on 26 - 27 June. Among the contributors are researchers from KFU, Moscow State University, Saint Petersburg State University, Russian State University of Oil and Gas, Saint Petersburg Polytechnic, Tomsk Polytechnic, Perm State University, Gazprom Neft, LUKOIL Engineering, Rosneft, BashNIPIneft, Tatneft, and other entities. The scientists were greeted by Vice-Rector...

KFU offers innovative solutions for Black Sea oil spill cleanup

A special event of the 5th Congress of Young Scientists was held, dedicated to eliminating the consequences of the oil spill in the Kerch Strait. The purpose of the meeting was to select the best technological solutions to eliminate the problem on the Black Sea coast. Our researchers presented innovative solutions and took an active part...

KFU’s work presented at Potential of the North of Western Siberia: Resources and Technologies Conference

The event took place on June 3–4 in Tyumen. The conference, organized by NOVATEK, was joined by employees of a number of Russian and foreign companies, universities, and research institutes, including CNOOC (China), RIPED (China), and Belorusneft. The main topic of discussion was maintaining production levels at existing gas fields, including gas condensate fields. The plenary session was...