Structural unit: Academy of Engineering.
The Center conducts fundamental and applied research in prospecting and exploring solid minerals, oil and gas; digital modeling of deposits and reservoirs; reserve estimation and resource assessment; mine design and planning; development of technologies for the efficient development of oil and gas fields, and hydrocarbon transportation and processing.
RESOURCES
The laboratory facilities enable the following work and research:
- geological mapping;
- geodetic and mine surveying;
- geophysical survey;
- geochemical survey;
X-ray fluorescence analysis of rocks;- digital modeling of solid mineral deposits;
- digital modeling of oil and gas reservoirs;
- modeling of oil and gas production processes;
- modeling of hydrocarbon transportation processes;
- modeling of hydrocarbon processing processes.
EQUIPMENT FLEET
- MaxiMag universal Overhauser magnetometer and gradiometer (Russia);
- SatisGeo KM-7 magnetic susceptibility meter (Russia);
- SRP-20 prospecting radiometer (Russia);
- TrueX portable XRF analyzer;
- RLP-3-01
X-ray fluorescence laboratory device (Russia); - Altami Polar 3 polarized light microscopes (Russia);
- NIKON 100D polarized light microscope (Japan);
- Scimitar1000 Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectrometer (USA);
- Leica TCR 1205 R100 electronic tacheometer (Germany);
- Leica Sprinter 100 electronic level (Germany);
- Leica Disto A5 laser distance meter (Germany);
- Micromine software (Australia), QGIS, tNavigator (Russia), GEOMIX (Russia).
THE TEAM
Solves a wide range of problems for academic and industrial partners, including field and laboratory work, modeling objects and processes, and developing new technologies in geology, mining, oil and gas.
PARTNERS
- Zarubezhgeologiya JSC
- Micromine Rus LLC
- Geo Tech Consulting LLC
- Center for Monitoring New Technologies LLC
- Developing an聽effective set of聽prospecting and evaluation methods for the discovery of聽ore deposits (copper, gold, molybdenum, rare earth elements, etc.)
- Developing mining and geological digital models of聽solid mineral deposits, reserve calculations and resource assessments
- Developing optimal models for solid mineral extraction using specialized software
- Geodesic surveying of聽mining, oil and gas industry facilities (quarries, shafts, infrastructure facilities) and civil engineering facilities (subway tunnels, bridges, etc.)
- Improving hydrocarbon exploration and prospecting methods
A unique method for paleovolcanic reconstruction of the territory was developed to restore the structural and tectonic structure of the region to effectively search for new mineral deposits.
Areas promising for the discovery of new copper-molybdenum porphyry deposits were identified within the Urals, Chukotka, Eastern Balkhash and the Red Sea Hills of Sudan and Egypt.
A method for atmogeochemical survey of potential oil and gas traps identified by seismic methods and areas promising for hydrocarbon exploration based on recorded anomalies of a wide range of hydrocarbon compounds was developed and tested.