KFU represented at Oman Petroleum & Energy Show in Muscat
Employees of the Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies of Kazan Federal University are taking part in the Oman Petroleum & Energy Show – OPES.
The large-scale three-day event takes place from May 12 to 14 in the city of Muscat with the support of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of Oman.
It aims to create a business platform and a venue for networking and sharing knowledge and experience between energy professionals, oil and gas company staff, academia, business and government.
At the exhibition, where the leading companies of oil and gas and energy industry presented their innovative developments and technologies, Mikhail Varfolomeev, Director of the Technology Park of Small Tonnage Chemical Technologies of KFU, Associate Professor of the Department of Petroleum Engineering, spoke today, “I gave a lecture on advanced technologies for the development of enhanced oil recovery and heavy oil production methods. KFU has accumulated rich experience in this field and has world-class scientific developments. Some of them are at the stage of laboratory research, while others are already being applied in the oilfields.”
KFU employees presented three reports. One of them, on hydrogen storage and transportation technologies, was read on the first day of the event by Ameen Al-Muntasser, Researcher of the Laboratory of Generation, Storage and Transportation of Hydrogen and Low Carbon Footprint Energy Carriers.
“My research aims to develop an efficient hydrogen storage and transportation technology (one of the greenest energy sources) using methylcyclohexane as a liquid organic hydrogen carrier and PdO/Al₂O catalyst,” informed the young scientist. “The high conversion rate and stability of the system under mild reaction conditions were experimentally confirmed.”
Al-Muntasser is confident that his research will contribute to the development of sustainable hydrogen technologies in the global energy transition.
Reports on the algorithms developed at KFU were presented today by Sergey Usmanov, Deputy Director for Methodological and Educational Activities of the Gazpromneft-KFU Center, Senior Lecturer; and Marat Yakupov, Engineer of the Laboratory for the Study of the State and Evolution of Underground Reservoirs.
“My presentation was devoted to an algorithm for evaluating the efficiency of enhanced oil recovery technologies using capacitance-resistive model (CRM) and automated algorithms,” Usmanov informed. “Its application will significantly reduce the processing time of each individual event (literally down to seconds) and analyze large volumes of data in real time, as well as select wells where the use of enhanced oil recovery methods will be most cost-effective.”
Yakupov’s report was on an algorithm for automatically selecting candidate wells for decommissioning. “It uses genetic algorithms and fuzzy logic to optimize decision-making processes for well rehabilitation and correct resource allocation when selecting a target site for commissioning,” he explained.
