Global Sustainability

The Rector of St. Petersburg Mining University Vladimir Litvinenko’s speech at the International Forum ”Nature Management and Conservation of the World Natural Heritage”, dedicated to the need to strengthen the role of the state in the regulation of the mineral resource complex, caused a wide public response. Scientists, politicians and heads of specialized companies are unanimous in their assessments: the government must develop a transparent and effective strategy for managing the extraction and processing of resources.

Another climate summit was held in Egypt, at the end of which many participants expressed their disappointment with the destructive position of the ”rich countries.” Why?

Specialists from St Petersburg Mining University have started building a model of the first well at the Sablino training and research site, where domestic oil and gas equipment is to be tested

This autumn people continued to die in mines and mines around the world. Some of the tragedies were caused by non-compliance with safety rules, while others were caused by rockbursts. Forpost decided to find out whether scientists can predict and prevent such cataclysms.

In 2015, the share of imported components in civilian aircraft construction was more than 80%. Now it has dropped to 70% for the Superjet and 30-40% for the MS-21. Will we be able to reduce it to acceptable levels?

In less than a month, eight scientists from St. Petersburg Mining University are planning to go to Antarctica as part of a seasonal glacial-drilling team, which also includes representatives of the AARI

The development has already received a gold medal at the prestigious International Innovation Exhibition ”HI-TECH” and is ready for introduction into production

Multidisciplinary scientific enterprise ”Geodata” handed over to St. Petersburg Mining University a unique collection of oil samples, which consists of more than 14 thousand specimens

German Academic Exchange Service DAAD officially reported that at the moment works ”in normal mode and the withdrawal of existing scholarships is out of the question.”

According to the rector of Russia’s oldest technical university, this resource cannot compete with natural gas. And all attempts to make it part of the global energy sector in the foreseeable future are doomed to failure.