Tag - Laboratory of Enhanced Oil Recovery

Institute delegation visits Innopolis

The IGPT team was headed by Vice-Rector for Earth Sciences Danis Nurgaliev. He was accompanied by Deputy Director of IGPT for Marketing Ildus Chukmarov, Deputy Director for Innovation Vladislav Sudakov, Senior Research Associate (Laboratory of Enhanced Oil Recovery) Rail Kadyrov, Junior Research Associate (Laboratory of Utilization of Carbon Dioxide in Natural Underground Reservoirs) Airat Yarullin, and...

How to enhance oil extraction – all about in-situ combustion

Below is a translation of an article from the latest issue of Neftegazovaya promyshlennost' (Oil and Gas Industry) magazine. Light oil in Russia is running out, and production requires the development of new technologies. In the old oil-producing region, Tatarstan, the focus is on developing high-viscosity oil fields and extending the life of mature fields. Solutions...

Scientists continue inquiries into hydrate-based methane storage technology

A paper in Journal of Energy Storage discusses a new biodegradable compound for hydrate formation. The Laboratory of Enhanced Oil Recovery researches a new class of compounds where castor oil is used as a hydrate formation promoter. Senior Research Associate Matvei Semenov comments, “Special emphasis is placed on the study of toxicity and biodegradation. This is due to the fact that hydrate...

Surfactant adsorption studied in digital core models

A paper appeared in Chemical Engineering Research and Design. Scientists of the Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies have obtained new results in the field of physicochemical hydrodynamics, characterizing the influence of surface tension and boundary wetting angle on the adsorbed amount of surfactants. Understanding the role and strength of factors affecting adsorption of surface-active agents (surfactants)...

Researchers test binary systems for downhole treatment of heavy oil

A joint paper with Samaraneftegaz and SamaraNIPIneft saw light in Processes. In the course of recent research, the KFU team proved that highly concentrated binary compositions are capable of releasing more gas and heat in the process of thermal-gas-chemical reaction. The development provides effective thermochemical treatment of downhole zones of wells. "In order to increase the coverage...

Amine Khelkhal: “Russia is the best country in the world for me”

Senior Research Associate of the Laboratory of Enhanced Oil Recovery and the Laboratory of Catalytic Aquathermolysis gave an interview to Open Talk about Russia, a popular YouTube channel featuring conversations with persons who have immigrated to Russia from various countries and found their calling here. Amine shares that he didn’t initially think about Russia when he graduated from the...

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...

Center for Liquid Hydrocarbons presented its work at ADIPEC 2023 in Abu Dhabi

The annual oil and gas forum was held on 2 - 5 October. The 2023 event became the largest ever, having been attended by 160,000 visitors, comprising 350 thematic sessions with 1,600 contributors, including over 40 ministers and 120 executives of the energy sector. ADIPEC is organized by ADNOC, Ministry of Energy of UAE, and Society...

Neural networks used to improve quality of digital rock images

A joint paper by KFU, University of Zanjan (Iran), and Bochum University of Applied Sciences appeared in Acta Geophysica. The introduction of machine learning reduces the limitations arising from tomographic imaging of rock samples: it becomes possible to improve the detail of sufficiently large samples, which in the future may contribute to the direct validation of numerical modeling...