OREANDA-NEWS. The executives of Skolkovo Foundation and Skoltech University visited PJSC TATNEFT as a part of their business trip.

The delegation met with the Company’s top managers headed by N.U.Maganov, General Director, and discussed the expansion of cooperation with PJSC TATNEFT and the development of cooperation roadmap.

Within the program, the event attendees got acquainted with the Company’s educational cluster. In the Almetyevsk State Oil Institute and “CPK Tatneft” research and development establishment the Skolkovo managers and scientists took a look at classrooms equipped to the highest modern standards, laboratories and research and development center, where the guests had an opportunity to work out few operations activities using training simulators under educational masters’ guidance.

The personnel training in the Company starts from the school. The integrated system of continuous education works in TATNEFT. There is successful cooperation with the best of higher education establishments of the republic and whole country. The systematic approach to personnel selection, training and additional education proved effective. The experts of TATNEFT successfully compete with Russian and international oil producing companies.

The attendees got acquainted with TATNEFT’s HR policy and plans in more details during the round table held in the Company’s headquarters. The parties discussed issues related to the new startups and projects, which are already under development. For example, one of them is related to the microbiological methods of EOR in super viscous oil reservoirs. There are new lines of research, such as opportunity of microbiological treatment of wastewater for its further usage for the purposes of EOR, which is under study now.

There were few proposals made during the conversation related to further cooperation. For example, the attendees proposed initiative on training of masters and Ph.D. students at Skolkovo platform for the further scientific work and improvement of technologies used in TATNEFT. There was a proposal on organizing of specialized training modules for TATNEFT featuring Skolkovo professors. It is worth noting that training modules having well-known experts of oil industry as tutors are in common practice in the Company.

The Skoltech competencies and research and development sectors being required in PJSC TATNEFT’s activities were presented to the audience.

The program included visit to TatNIPIneft, which is scientific platform of TATNEFT. The presentations of Skolkovo foundation and startup representatives were made at the meeting held in the institute. For example, Andrey Maltsev, Business Development Director of JSC Perfobur, presented radial drilling technology with fully controlled wellbore trajectory. Evegnii Glukhmanchuk, General Director of JSC CGM, presented to the audience OilRiver hard-to-recover oil production technology and the adaptation of producing well patterns to the system of natural filtration channel. The representatives of Skolkovo foundation and Skoltech introduced the event attendees to the key research and development and educational competencies in oil and gas production and IT.

As noted by Irina Bobb, Head of JSC “NTC Tatneft”, which is PJSC TATNEFT’s research and development center in Skolkovo, the meeting was very effective and brought few preliminary decisions, including education of the best students of AGNI and other higher education establishments of Tatarstan on master’s programs in Scoltech. The Scoltech students in their turn will do their internships at PJSC TATNEFT and AGNI. There is also cooperation provided for at the experimental areas of Tatarstan, where Skolkovo and Skoltech University research and development divisions will be able to improve their technologies. The foundation also offered its support in the marketing promotion and commercialization of oil production technologies developed by research and development divisions of PJSC TATNEFT.

The Skolkovo and Skoltech executives visit included not only business meetings, but also excursion to the wide range of facilities connected with the Company’s activities. The guests got acquainted with the history of TATNEFT by visiting oil museum in Shugurovo and the first discovery well, which gave a start to the commercial oil production in Tatarstan.

TATNEFT became the first Russian oil company to start construction of its own facility in Skolkovo Tech City. TATNEFT’s research and development center is planned to be commissioned in 2017. Currently, JSC NTC Tatneft laboratories work at the premises of TatNIPIneft in Bugulma, and the center has Skolkovo resident status since January 2013.