The forum was held at Almetyevsk State Technological University. The main events of the forum were the annual Oil Summit of the Republic of Tatarstan and an educational program in the hackathon format. Participants of the hackathon united in teams of six people and analyzed the solution of a case in one of four directions. The areas...
On July 12, the 20th Oil Summit of the Republic of Tatarstan opened in Almetyevsk. The event is one of the biggest platforms where topical issues of fuel and energy complex enterprises development are discussed and a consolidated position of the government and business on key technological priorities is formulated. The summit was attended by Rustam...
Ognev's research, conducted in cooperation with Vice-Rector for Earth Sciences of KFU Danis Nurgaliev and colleagues from Kiel University, will determine the influence of the content of radioactive isotopes on the temperature in the Earth's crust and sedimentary cover, as well as assess the influence of radiogenic heat flow on the formation of oil and...
From June 30 to July 3, 2024, Boris Platov and Igor Ognev gave a series of lectures at the China University of Petroleum for master's and PhD students. Boris Platov dedicated his course to modern methods of geophysical well logging, detailing the physical principles of their operation and geological interpretation of the data. Igor Ognev presented the...
Director of the Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies gave an interview to the KFU Media Communications Center before the new academic year. Vladimir Vladimirovich, many boys are interested in dinosaurs. Did your love for geology and paleontology also begin with them? V.S.: I was not interested in dinosaurs as a child. My love for geology was...
Over 4.7 thousand applications were submitted this year, most of them in technical sciences. Under the guidance of Mikhail Varfolomeev, Chair of the Department of Petroleum Engineering, Saeed Shadi is developing technologies for hydrocarbon production from low-permeability unconventional shale rocks using hydrothermal conversion. It is mainly the application of specialized catalysts for in-situ conversion of fixed...
The Kazanian delegation visited longtime partners Southwest Petroleum University and a new research facility in clean energy in Sichuan Province, China. Russian and Chinese scientists will launch a batch of new projects, as was agreed on 4 and 5 July in Chengdu. KFU was represented by Chair of the Department of Petroleum Engineering Mikhail Varfolomeev and Senior Research...
A joint meeting of members of the Association of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Dzerzhinskkhimregion and representatives of leading universities and research institutes of the Republic of Tatarstan was held in Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. At the initiative of the Science and Technology Foundation of Tatarstan, representatives of the leading universities of Tatarstan were invited to the...
Personnel Reserve of the Republic of Tatarstan is a project aimed at fostering local managerial talent. Mikhail Varfolomeev is also currently Deputy Director for Research at the Gazpromneft-KFU Research and Development Center. Since 2023, he has been a member of the Russian Presidential Council for Science and Education. To participate in the project, the scientist underwent a...
3rd Scientific and Practical Conference on Petroleum Hydrogeology, Geochemistry and Hydrodynamic Modeling opened at Kazan Federal University on 25 June. The conference is organized by the Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies (IGPT) and the Center for Liquid Hydrocarbons. Danis Nurgaliev, Chairman of the Organizing Committee, Vice-Rector for Earth Sciences, opened the conference. He noted that...
