Kazan University partook in Thermal Oil Recovery 2023 conference in Ankara, Türkiye
A sizable Kazanian delegation visited the country on 20 – 22 November, including Vice-Rector for Earth Sciences Danis Nurgaliev and Chair of the Department of Petroleum Engineering Mikhail Varfolomeev. Since 2016, TheOR has become an established presence in the oil industry, attracting many experts from dozens of countries. This sixth iteration took place in Türkiye. Previous...
Professor Rafail Lukmanov congratulated on 70th birthday
Doctor of Science in Geology and Mineralogy, Professor of the Department of General Geology and Hydrogeology celebrated his birthday on November 15. "We wish that luck, success and inspiration are your faithful companions in all your endeavors, and health and well-being - in your daily life. as well as perseverance and patience in solving everyday tasks,"...
Almohamad Alfandi Mohamad becomes first international student to win Student Startup funding
His project is titled ‘Development of non-oxidized bitumen for road construction through catalytic refining of heavy oil residue’. Mr Al Mohamad, 4th year PhD student of petroleum engineering, is among the 10 winners of the latest Student Startup selection session from KFU. The Syrian national says that he chose road bitumen as his PhD topic, “This topic...
Shtukenberg Geological Museum opens exhibition commemorating Professor Ivan Penkov
The exhibition commemorates his 100th anniversary. From a school bench to the war fronts Ivan Penkov (1923 - 2021) is warmly remembered as a prominent geologist, teacher, mentor, avid skier, gymnast, enthusiast fisher, and an overall good-hearted optimist. Penkov's descendants and relatives The future geologist was born in 1923 in the village of Sokolovka, Nikolskoe District, Penza Oblast. He...
8th Open Championship of Geological Cases CASE – YouGEO held at Institute
The event was organized on 3 November. Over 200 middle schoolers and high schoolers joined the competition, including young people from Orenburg Oblast and Moscow Oblast. This year, the topic was natural gas. The contestants had to defend their cases before a jury. Everyone was greeted by First Vice-Rector Dmitry Tayursky, Head of the Section of Secondary Education and...
Center for Liquid Hydrocarbons developing nanotechnology for oil recovery
The Laboratory of Enhanced Oil Recovery has studied the influence of sodium metal nanoparticles on oil recovery. Unfavorable geological conditions and low economic efficiency of oil production intensify innovation activities for the creation and further application of new technologies. Among the technological innovations are nanomaterials and nanotechnologies, in particular, organic dispersion of metallic sodium nanoparticles. It...
Institute research presented at conference in Moscow
The conference, titled Science Policies: Achievements, Problems, and Prospects (part of the Boiling Point cycle), was organized to celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Directorate of Research and Technology Programs, a subsidiary of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia and held at NUST MISIS. KFU was represented by Head of the Laboratory of...
Golovkinsky Readings 2023 held at Institute
7th International Golovkinsky Conference on Upper Paleozoic in Russia was held on 23 - 25 October. The forum is named after Nikolay Golovkinsky (1834 - 1897), one of the authors of the empirical law on the regular sequence and age sliding of facies in a sedimentary basin. It laid the basis for sequence stratigraphy. Golovkinsky was...
Students and employees receive fraud prevention training
On 24 October, IGPT students met with experts of the University's Section of Crime Prevention of the Department of Comprehensive Security. The visitors spoke about extremism and terrorism prevention among students and popular phone fraud techniques. In his turn, Vice-Rector for Comprehensive Security Rishat Guzeirov met with the employees. He presented popular cybercrime schemes and instructed the...