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the formation energy or that of injected heat carrier to generate oil-displacing fluid,
gels and sols in situ. Five new commercial technologies have been developed to
enhance oil recovery of West Siberia oil fields. The technologies passed large-scale
field tests and now they are being made commercial in oil fields of West Siberia.
Analytical and technological aspects of environmental control: purification of water, soil
and air from oil and oil products, other organic impurities and from heavy metals.
Reusable adsorbents have been developed to collect oil and oil products from water
surface. Their production and use have been brought into a commercial level.
Filter-adsorbent technology intended to purify sewage from oil products and surfactants.
Devices for scientific researches, i.e. densimeters, microcalorimeters, viscosimeters,
cryostats and petroleum quality analysers.
Methods for judicious use of natural caustobioliths, waste of oil refining, coal, peat and
other organic raw material processing.
Stabilizers, additives, dyes, lubricants, sensitizers, flotation reagents, surfactants etc.
The Institute has a block of model installation to bring new technologies into a commercial
level.
A unique petroleum museum has been created at the Institute containing mone than 3000
petroleum samples and cores. They are also used as the subjects for scientific
researches.
Present day equipment, accreditated laboratories and sertified testing methods.
In 1970 a Department of high-molecular compounds of the Tomsk State University was
organized at the Institute for training specialists. The Department is traditionally
headed by the director of the Institute.
There is a post-graduate course on petroleum chemistry and a dissertation council at the
Institute.
The staff numbers 259 including 7 Doctors and 56 Candidates of Sciences.
Information Resources of the Institute:
A geoinformation system (GIS) on geology and chemistry for Russian oils has been
created. It consists in three data bases.
Base of factographic data includes files "The Results of Well Tests", containing the results
on the studies of all productive and prospecting wells, i.e. productive formations,
depth of roof and bottom occurrence, hole depth, perforation range, formation
temperature and pressure, differential pressure; buffer, casing head, bottom hole
pressures; oil, gas and condensate outputs; etc.
The second data base includes information on current state of wells: abandoned, shut-in or
productive.
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