TPU Together with Russian Universities, Gazprom Neft and SKIF Plans to Develop Novel Synchrotron Radiation-Based Oil Production Technologies

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TPU Together with Russian Universities, Gazprom Neft and SKIF Plans to Develop Novel Synchrotron Radiation-Based Oil Production Technologies

Tomsk Polytechnic University has joined the Consortium named Synchrotron Radiation for Oil and Gas Technologies together with the Siberian Ring Photon Source (SKIF) Shared Knowledge Center and the Gazprom Neft Science and Technology Center. The agreement was signed today at the X International Technology Development Forum TECHNOPROM, which is being held in Novosibirsk these days. The Consortium members will conduct collaborative research and develop technologies for hard-to-recover oil production.

Along with Tomsk Polytechnic University, the Consortium brought together such Russian academic and research institutions as Novosibirsk State University, the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis of the Siberian Branch of RAS, Kazan Federal University, the Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum-Gas Geology and Geophysics of the Siberian Branch of RAS, and the Lavrentiev Institute of Hydrodynamics.

"Tomsk Polytechnic University has extensive experience in X-ray engineering, synchrotron and pulsed beam control. The university scientists create detectors and related protocols for partner companies, to monitor the processes occurring in the core. In the SKIF project, our researchers together with their partners are creating the Microfocus and the Electronic Structure stations and designing radiation shielding structures (hutches) for other stations.

In the Consortium projects, university scientists will work on developing new protocols, verifying models and improving scanning rate. I am convinced we have a lot to offer to our colleagues,

- Leonid Sukhikh, Acting Rector of Tomsk Polytechnic University, notes.The Consortium members will collaborate in research and development, as well as in education programs and personnel training. In particular, they will focus on technologies to improve oil production efficiency, including the development and implementation of technologies for hard-to-recover oil production.

Thanks to the Consortium, we will compile an entire research framework that will be unique in domestic and, to a large extent, in international research practice. Together with our partners, we will have an opportunity to develop advanced technologies based on latest scientific achievements and state-of-the-art research infrastructure, including megasience-class facilities, such as SKIF. Our joint work is bound to boost tight oil extraction technologies,

- says Alexey Vashkevich, Technology Director at Gazprom Neft.