Scientists have created a digital model of Lake Turgoyak, "Baikal's little brother," located in the Southern Urals. The new scientific data is presented in Georesursy. "Lake Turgoyak is a unique natural feature and one of the largest reservoirs of drinking water in the Southern Urals. It is prized for the purity and transparency of its water. The...
The Laboratory of Enhanced Oil Recovery published its research in Fuel. “Shale rocks, especially such as the Bazhenov formation and Domanik deposits, are rich in organic matter and have been actively studied in recent years by both scientists and oil industry specialists. However, studying such rocks remains a difficult task. Oil, bitumen, kerogen and water coexist...
All the five meteorites found in Republic of Tatarstan are stored at KFU’s Geological Museum, one of the richest in Russia with 430,000 items and 220 years of history – as long as the university itself. The earliest local meteorite was found in 1899 near the village of Chuvashskie Kisy – and was named as such,...
The scientists are using the University's proprietary geological-geophysical model of drilling optimization (GGMDO). "We took over 70 samples from a 12 on 4 kilometer plot. The samples were taken under rigorous standards and methodologies to provide the necessary testing accuracy. They will help assess the composition of hydrocarbons and the presence of gas deposits here," comments...
The team held seismic acoustics tests and collected benthic sediments to reconstruct historical climate patterns and improve climate predictions for this area. Deputy Director for Research of the Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies Pavel Krylov shares, “We are funded by the megagrant Global climate challenges in Russia: retrospective analysis, forecasting and adaptation mechanisms, where our partners are several institutes...
Employees of the Laboratory of In-Situ Combustion of the Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies of Kazan Federal University have developed a catalyst based on salts of weak acids to increase the efficiency of heavy oil production. The main difficulty that oil companies face when developing such oil is its high viscosity, due to the high...
A peptizer for the upgrading of heavy oil, developed by the staff of the In-Situ Combustion Laboratory of the Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies of the Kazan Federal University, has been tested at one of the fields of the RITEK-Samara-Nafta territorial production enterprise. “We have synthesized new heat-resistant surfactants based on medium-molecular polyglycols (polyethylene glycol...
The region includes 14 of 43 municipal districts of Tatarstan, including the second biggest city of the province, Naberezhnye Chelny, and other important centers, primarily of the oil industry. "Eastern Trans-Kama is noted by active tectonics, complex landscapes, and intense denudative destruction. Alluvial sediments are omnipresent. That's why the territory is known for karst and suffusion...
The Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education pledges to allocate 250 million rubles in the next two years for the project. A total of 228 applications were submitted for the competition, which was held with the aim of forming a scientific infrastructure for research and development in priority areas of scientific and technological development, of...
“The core extraction process itself is expensive and technically challenging. After a number of laboratory tests, the samples become unsuitable for further research, which significantly limits the possibility of conducting repeated analyses to study various aspects of fluid behavior inside the rock,” says Rail Kadyrov, Senior Researcher of the Laboratory of In-Situ Combustion. “We decided to find...
