MGRI freshmen took two third places at the International conference in Kazan

The International Youth Conference "Tatarstan UpExPro 2021" was held at the Kazan Federal University on April 15-18. 12 MGRI students took part in it, and two of them - Aleksandra Shutko and Aleksandra Astaskevich - returned with a victory.

Alexandra Shutko, a student of the hydrogeological faculty, presented a project on creating a membrane from anion-exchange resins for processing CO2 into CO at the section "Development of oil, gas and gas condensate fields". The essence of the project is to create artificial photosynthesis by means of the laws of ion exchange, and this is not a modernization of the existing method, but a fundamentally new idea. The jury of representatives of industrial companies (Gazprom, Tatneft) and teachers of the Institute of Geology and Oil and Gas Technologies of the Kazan Federal University highly appreciated the student's project and awarded her third place.

“I went to Kazan with the thought that I would simply take part at the conference, this was my first face-to-face presentation, and I did not expect anything like this from it,” Alexandra said. - I was the very first to speak, the members of the jury asked me a lot of questions, even asked if I had a patent. I was among the winners really unexpectedly for myself. It's nice that I was awarded not only a diploma, but also a considerable number of gifts.”

According to Alexandra, the conference was held at the highest level: “We had lectures, intellectual games, and excursions around the city, we were greeted very warmly. Each participant was presented with branded T-shirts, caps and many other merchandize, even books. I am very glad that I came here, and my overall impression is a feeling of happiness.”

Alexandra Astaskevich, a student of the Faculty of Geology and Geophysics of Oil and Gas, won the third place in the section “Geophysics and Geoinformation Technologies”. Her report “The threat of catastrophic emissions of gas hydrates (methane) in the East Siberian Sea and the Laptev Sea (Arctic) - telemetric seismic survey for deep and engineering surveys” is devoted to the problem of methane emissions in the Arctic and their impact on global warming. Alexandra came up with the idea of tracking emissions using geophysical techniques to create a dataset that can be used to predict large emissions and predict climate impacts. Despite the fact that the project is still at its initial stage, the jury members - teachers of KFU and employees of the oilfield service company “TNG-Group” – got extremely interested in.

For Alexandra Astaskevich, the victory also came as a surprise. “Most of the participants were on their 3-5 years, and I was only a freshman and was giving this report for the first time ... There was a serious research, with calculations and experimental data, and my work was about these problems, so I did not think that I could take any place. But I answered the questions pretty well, and, apparently, the topic itself and further plans for the implementation of the project also played a great role.”

Both students presented their projects to the scientific community for the second time: the first was at the conference “New Ideas in Earth Sciences”, held at the Russian State University for Geological Prospecting in early April.

     

The conference in Kazan was attended by other MGRI students: students of the Faculty of Exploration and Development Technology Elvina Azmambetova, Vitaly Kazaku, Eva Orlenkova, Arseniy Chekalov and Sergey Nesterenko; students of the Faculty of Geology and Geophysics of Oil and Gas Lev Kononenko and Leili Kalendarova; students of the hydrogeological faculty Anna Shcherbakova, Anna Boyko and a student of the Faculty of Ecology Alina Lapykina. All of them are activists of the MGRI SPE Student Chapter and the MGRI SEG Student Chapter. The chapters are supervised by Vice-Rector for International Affairs and Regional Cooperation Anastasia Mashkova, head of the Faculty of Geology and Geophysics of Oil and Gas Andrei Ivanov, Head of the Department of Modern Well-Drilling Technologies Nikolai Solovyov and teachers of the Department Ksenia Shcherbakova and Batyr Ovezov.