Institute visited by representatives of Peking University
The delegation of the one top global universities included Vice-President Piao Shilong, Deputy Head of the International Cooperation Department Jiang Xiaotao, and Senior Engineer of the School of Earth and Space Sciences Li Xiaoli. They arrived to partake in ROSTKI Russia-China Forum in Kazan, where Dr Piao joined one of the panel discussions.
Piao Shilong, Vice President of Peking University, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor Emeritus of the Institute of Carbon Neutrality, has served on the Scientific Steering Committee of the Global Carbon Project and was the lead author of the Fifth and Sixth Assessment Reports. His research focuses on the linkages between terrestrial ecosystems and climate change.
At the Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies, Danis Nurgaliev, Vice-Rector of KFU for Earth Sciences, presented the results of young scientists’ research to the delegates from China. Dilyara Kuzina, Senior Researcher of the Research Laboratory of Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology and Paleomagnetism, Igor Ognev, Associate Professor of the Scientific and Educational Center of the Modeling of Hard-to-Recover Hydrocarbons, and Dilyara Favarisova and Yevgeniya Morozova, engineers of the Scientific and Educational Center of Geothermochronology, told about their work, as well as about cooperation with colleagues from the China University of Petroleum on the issues of methane emissions at hydrocarbon fields, monitoring of surface heat fluxes, age of oil deposits, etc.
Piao Shilong noted that some of the presented studies are not currently conducted in China, and the Chinese side is interested in relevant cooperation. In addition, he announced an upcoming school on Earth sciences tentatively scheduled for summer 2025, where KFU researchers will be invited.
The guests then toured the Institute’s labs, accompanied by Vice-Rector Nurgaliev.
“We are glad that our cooperation with China Petroleum University (UPC) is expanding,” says Ildus Chukmarov, Deputy Director of IGPT for Marketing, Director of the Center for Advanced Training (CdoGEO). “The history of friendly relations with China began back in 2015, when CdoGEO together with Hechuan LLC realized the internship of managers and employees of TNG-Group on the basis of COSL and CNPC CPL (Beijing and Xi’an). After a while we signed a memorandum of understanding between KFU and China University of Petroleum and agreed to implement additional professional education programs for students and staff of the university. Last year we trained students from China in four professional development programs. Regular webinars and internships strengthen our ties. And after such a visit, we hope to further develop our cooperation.”
Other IGPT’s partners in China include Southwest Petroleum University, Northeast Petroleum University, Chongqing University of Science and Technology, and Jilin University.
Throughout their stay in Kazan, the visitors were accompanied by the Institute’s International Cooperation Officer Yury Nurmeev.
