On 26 - 28 May, the event brings together representatives of oil producing and oilfield service companies, research and development centers, academic institutes, universities, and developers and manufacturers of specialized chemical products and equipment from Russia, China, Vietnam, France, Oman, and Kazakhstan. "This year, more than 250 people are participating in the conference, 90 of them...
The Peking University delegation visited on 27th and 28th May. Importantly, a week ago, President Xi Jinping and President Vladimir Putin officially launched the China-Russia Mutual Years of Educational Cooperation in 2026 and 2027. The Peking University group comprised Deputy Dean of the School of Earth and Planetary Sciences of Shen Bing, Professor Zhang Bo, and PhD student Yelizaveta Grigoryeva; they were joined by...
At the event, Maria Shipaeva, a senior researcher at the Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies, presented a paper on geochemical field monitoring, Carbon Dioxide Utilization in Underground Natural Reservoirs. The paper generated considerable interest among representatives of the oil and gas sector. During his stay in Muscat, Mikhail Varfolomeev, Director of the Kazan Federal University's...
“Our technology is based on a systematic consideration of poroelastic, filtration, and physicochemical processes occurring in a saturated porous medium under the influence of an elastic wave field. It differs from existing empirical approaches by providing a rigorous physical and mathematical justification and experimental verification,” informs Ruslan Kemalov, Associate Professor of the Department of Oil, Gas, and...
A delegation led by Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Student and Alumni Affairs Ali Selamat visited KFU today. He was accompanied by Associate Professor Mohd Ariffin Abu Hassan and Senior Lecturer Abdul Rahim Risal. During the visit, a meeting was held with representatives of the KFU management, at which cooperation in the scientific and educational fields was discussed. On...
Gas hydrates look like ordinary snow or ice, but they burn readily. This is due to gas molecules securely "packed" within a crystal lattice composed of water molecules. These compounds form at high pressure and low temperature and have great potential as containers for the safe storage and transportation of methane, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide....
The speaker, who for many years was deputy minister of finance of Russia and now teaches at the Higher School of Economics, arrived to the Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies today. The event was part of the RSFC's tour, From the Cuban Revolution to the Stars: 100 years of Fidel Castro and 65 years of...
The only female dean in the history of Kazan Unviersity's geological faculty, who headed it in 1949 - 1953, was born on May 5, 1901. She also chaired the department of geology from 1934 to 1974. Yevgenyia Tikhvinskaya's granddaughter, journalist Maria Gerasimova, a graduate of Kazan University, not only cherishes the memory of her beloved grandmother, who...
One of the nation's leaders in oilfield services is interested in arranging cooperation with IGPT. The meeting featured Danis Nurgaliev, Vice-Rector for Earth Sciences; Ildus Chukmarov, Deputy Director for Continuing Education and Industrial Partnerships at IGPT; Mikhail Varfolomeev, Director of the Small-Tonnage Chemical Technology Park; Vladislav Sudakov, Deputy Director for Marketing at the Gazpromneft-KFU Scientific and...
The new paper describes promoters of hydrate formation based on amino acids and gluconic acid. Shamil Gainullin, a junior research associate at the Laboratory of Hydrate Technologies for Greenhouse Gas Utilization and Storage, discussed the advantages of storing and transporting natural gas as gas hydrates and a new "growth stimulator" developed at KFU for these solid,...
