Cooperation agreement signed with Yugra State University

Rector of Kazan Federal University Lenar Safin and Rector of Yugra University Roman Kuchin signed a cooperation agreement. The signing took place Today, August 26, on the premises of the Tatarstan Oil, Gas and Petrochemistry Forum at Kazan Expo. The parties will develop long-term partnership in scientific and educational matters. In particular, joint projects are planned...

Institute employee inducted into the Presidium of the Presidential Council on Science and Education

The new roster of the Council included 46 individuals, including Chair of the Department of Petroleum Engineering, who has been a member since April 2023 and is now part of the Presidium. “I participated in the implementation of the council's activities in areas related to the awarding of state prizes, the approval of the new strategy...

Gas-tight syringe developed by winner of Student Startup

Vladislav Chalin, KFU alumnus, Laboratory Assistant of the Laboratory of Enhanced Oil Recovery, is creating a promising model of a gas-tight syringe made of domestic materials; the funding is to be provided by Student Startup. He will receive 1 million rubles to produce a pilot batch of syringes. “In the laboratory, we perform many types of research,...

Center for Liquid Hydrocarbons optimizing technology of supercritical water application for enhanced oil recovery

A research team of scientists from Kazan Federal University presented the results of creating a kinetic model to describe the conversion processes of organic shale under thermochemical action in the presence of various catalysts. The results saw light in Journal of Supercritical Fluids. The kinetic data show that the catalyst intensifies the conversion reactions of organic matter from...

Carbonate Sediments 2024 hosted by Institute

The conference takes up August 14 to 16. It brings together more than 150 experts from leading Russian oil companies, universities of the country, as well as experts in the study of carbonate reservoirs. The program of the event, which along with KFU is organized by the Association of Geologists, Geophysicists and Engineers and the Center for...

Geology and petroleum science to be featured at 3rd OIC Youth Congress – applications open

Over 100 young scientists are planned to join the event on 6 – 9 November 2024. Among the announced thematic sessions biomedicine and biotechnology, geology and petroleum technologies, international relations and international law, architecture and design, and educational technologies. The Congress is open to young researchers aged 18 to 35 representing OIC member and observer countries. The...

Students return from field studies in Zelenodolsk District

A group of 26 students of engineering geology and hydrogeology interned at the Sobakinskiye Yamy (lit. Dog Pits) polygon in Ulitino settlement near Kazan. All the field work was supported by the cloud application SoilBox.app and supervised by associate professors of the Department of General Geology and Hydrogeology Airat Latypov and Anastasiya Garayeva. "'Zoomers, or the Internet...

Representatives of the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies spoke at the 12th All-Russian Congress of Councils of Young Scientists and Student Scientific Communities

This year it was held in Vladivostok, the youth capital of Russia in 2024, on 15 – 17 July. The forum was attended by more than a thousand people from different provinces and other countries. In total, more than 1,800 applications for participation were submitted. Iskander Vakhitov, Chairman of the Association of Young Scientists of KFU, Research...

Researcher Anastasia Mikhailova commended at 5th International Oil and Gas Forum in Almetyevsk

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...

Institute represented at Tatarstan Oil Summit

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...