Science and technics

An award-winning innovative project comes as a result of interdisciplinary research. The research focuses on reducing sediment accumulating whilst storing petroleum products and recycling oily sludge found at the bottom of oil tanks.

Amongst the candidates for the positions of chairs and vice-chairs at the 24th World Petroleum Congress are five representatives from Mining University

St. Petersburg Mining University researchers, being aboard the vessel heading to the Vostok Research Station, share their impressions of how the 2nd week of the expedition went

Composite material development would be effective on a mass-production scale

Gubkin researchers have come up with an alternative to toxic alcohols, methanol, and mono-ethylene glycol, traditionally used as hydrate inhibitors.

A multi-unit modular wind farm can supply 100% of the needed electricity to detached houses and agricultural facilities that are not powered from the national grid.

A list of the most active scientific organisations, amongst those preferring electronic interaction when registering their inventions and utility models at Rospatent, has been revealed.

Ilshat Gafurov talks about the most in-demand specialities and educational programmes, the challenge of moving from the research stage to innovation, individual educational trajectories, amongst many other things.

This season, the maximum number of scientists since Soviet times - 12 people, seven of whom represent St. Petersburg Mining University - will go to the Russian research station Vostok, located on the White Continent. Forpost asked the university’s rector Vladimir Litvinenko to tell what tasks the polar explorers face and explain whether the research in the coldest place on Earth can help mankind reduce its carbon footprint.

Amongst these tasks is obtaining new fundamental scientific knowledge in geodynamics, geothermics, hydrogen genesis