Center for Liquid Hydrocarbons submitted a new paper to Geoenergy Science and Engineering. The search for a solution to the problem of representativeness of core material sizes, on which pore space structure studies, filtration characteristics measurement, and chemical studies are carried out, has been going on for several decades. The most widespread today is the deterministic approach,...
Rais (Governor) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov helmed the event. Rector Lenar Safin spoke about the Center’s main activities, “Research is conducted in three main areas. It is about developing technologies for prospecting and exploration of large fields on the shelf and unexplored territories, creating new technology for the development of giant fields that have been exploited...
A new paper appeared in Fuel. “Gas hydrates are solid crystalline substances resembling ice and consisting of gas and water molecules. Under conditions of high pressure and low temperature, gas molecules are contained within the cavities of the frameworks formed by water molecules. One volume of hydrate can hold about 160 volumes of gas. A promising method...
KFU’s Laboratory of Catalytic Aquathermolysis continues its research in in-situ oil refining. In June of this year, a catalyst precursor was tested at the same oilfield. The observations showed its efficiency for heavy oil reservoirs. On 16 August, a pilot field test was held on commission from RITEK LLC. “Aquathermolysis catalysts function in the porous medium of...
A joint paper by Kazan Federal University and Tyumen Industrial University saw light in Fuel. Despite the fact that electromagnetic heating processes have been known since the middle of the last century, the nature of the interaction of the electromagnetic field with heavy oil components has not yet been studied. In one of the latest studies,...
A joint research by KFU and Saudi Arabian (King Saud University) and Malaysian (University of Malaya) scientists saw light in Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. As demonstrated by recent studies by the Laboratory of Enhanced Oil Recovery, most of the studied Domanic carbonate samples with depths ranging from 1726.5 meters to 1784.9 meters have now reached...
A press briefing was held on 10 August at Tatar-Inform agency. The briefing featured Vice-Rector for Earth Sciences Danis Nurgaliev, General Director of Tatarstan Petroleum Chemistry Investment Holding Rafinat Yarullin, and co-authors of the book, Chair of the Department of Petroleum Engineering Mikhail Varfolomeev, Invited Professor Jorge Ancheyta, Senior Research Associate Irek Mukhamatdinov, and Senior Research Associate Jose Guillermo Felix Lugo. Director...
The new board can accept dissertations in two specialization: 2.8.4 Development and maintenance of oil and gas fields (technical science) and 1.4.12 Oil chemistry (chemical science). The board unites prominent researchers from KFU, Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry (Kazan), Ufa State Petroleum University, Almetyevsk State Petroleum Institute, and TatNIPIneft (Tatarstan Research Institute of Oil Industry)....
This 14th July, the summit marked the 80th anniversary of oil industry in Tatarstan and the 75th anniversary of the discovery of Romashkino oilfield, the bread and butter of local oil industry. Among the booths visited by industry captains and Rais (Governor) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov was one installed by KFU's Center for Liquid Hydrocarbons. Speaking about...
The conference "Science in the design and development of oil fields - new opportunities" was held in Tyumen by Rosneft. Alexander Bolotov, Senior Research Associate of the Laboratory of Enhanced Oil Recovery, shared details about KFU's work on reagents for EOR. "At the conference, I presented new reagents developed in KFU laboratories, and also presented successful results...
