Gubkin University

The Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas (Russian: Российский государственный университет нефти и газа имени И. М. Губкина) is a public university in Moscow, Russia. The university was founded in 1930 and is named after the geologist Ivan Gubkin. The university is colloquially known as Kerosinka (Russian: Керосинка), meaning 'kerosene stove'.

Affiliates of the Gubkin institute exist in Orenburg and Tashkent (Uzbekistan).

Academics

Petroleum geology and geophysics

The work of geologists and geophysicists is complex and multifaceted. Only detailed study of the structure of the Earth's deposits with the use of modern geophysical instruments and computer technologies can confidently identify oil and gas deposits at the depth of several kilometers. The Faculty trains geologists and geophysicists in a variety of areas and specializations of geoscience to meet the industry's needs.

Training is provided by a team of researchers. Among them are Russian State Prize Laureates, Honored Scientists of the Russian Federation, Honored Geologists and Geophysicists. The Faculty offers Bachelor, Master and Ph.D. programs.

• Departments
• Theory of Prospecting and Exploration of Oil and Gas
• Petroleum Field Geology
• Geology
• Geophysical Information Systems
• Exploration Geophysics and Computer Systems
• lithology and System Research of Lithosphere
• Geology of Hydrocarbon Systems

Aleksandr V. Lobusev is author of more than 90 scientific papers. He is also the holder of the patent: "Method of developing oil and gas fields”. He is member of many renowned public organizations: the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE); Chairman of the Committee on Science of Gubkin University Academic Council, Public Council of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation, full member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Russia.

Reservoir engineering

Hydrocarbons are produced in Siberian blistering cold and in violent African heat, deep under the sea and in the desert. It is the reservoir engineer who plays the major role in this process of development and exploitation of oil and gas deposits. The Faculty of Reservoir Engineering prepares professionals in drilling, well completion and simulation, development and exploitation of on- and offshore oil, gas and gas condensate fields, research in physics and hydraulics. Students of the Faculty receive in-depth knowledge in geology, economics, engineering mechanics, oil field chemicals and computer systems.

The Faculty offers a variety of Bachelor, Master and Ph.D. programs.

• Departments
• Oil and Gas Wells Drilling
• Petroleum Reservoir Engineering
• Gas and Gas-Condensate Reservoir Engineering
• Offshore Petroleum Reservoir Engineering
• Physics
• Petroleum and Subsurface Fluid Mechanics
• Gas Technologies and Underground Gas Storage
• Institute of Hydrocarbon Reservoir Engineering
• R&D Institute for Drilling Technologies
• Institute of Arctic Petroleum Technologies

Professor Bondarenko teaches the course on "Physics of oil and gas reservoir." He has published more than 40 scientific works. Professor Bovanenko is the Laureate of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of Science and Technology, Honorary Person of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation.

International cooperation

Academic cooperation

University partners

China is now believed to be the only country with a university partnering.

History

There was a task in the USSR – to prepare 435,000 engineers and technicians in 5 years (1930-1935) during the USSR industrialization period, while their number in 1929 was 66,000.

In 1930 the Moscow Mining Academy was divided into six independent institutes by the order of Supreme Soviet of the National Economy. The Petroleum Engineering Department of the Moscow Mining Academy became the base for the new Moscow Petroleum Institute. The Institute was named in honor of Academician Ivan Gubkin, “who contributed greatly to the foundation of higher education aimed at (of training engineers, needed urgently for the socialist industry”. At this time the young Soviet state was in want of fuel and energy for industrial development. The petroleum industry faced new challenges such as the development of new fields, application of advanced methods of operation, introduction of new production technologies, further development of oil refining technologies and construction of new plants, electrification of the oil industry, as well as the planning, organization and improving the safety of petroleum production. None of these problems could be solved without significant increase in the number of petroleum engineers and Gubkin Institute became the main base for preparing such specialists.

At the beginning there were only three faculties at the university, namely: Geology and Oil Exploration, Petroleum Engineering and Refining. The first Rector of the university and the founders of its educational and research schools was its namesake Ivan M. Gubkin.

From 1941 to 1943, during World War II, the university was evacuated to Ufa.

Nowadays there are more than ten teaching faculties at Gubkin preparing specialists in almost every field of the petroleum industry: from petroleum geology and engineering to energy economics and trading. Since the university's establishment more than 85,000 students have been graduated from Gubkin.

Notable alumni

Roman Abramovich – Russian-Israeli billionaire businessman, investor, and politician. Owner of the private investment company Millhouse LLC and former owner of Chelsea Football Club.

Mikhail Gutseriev – Russian billionaire of Ingush descent.

• Teki Biçoku – Albanian geologist
• Sergey Donskoy – politician
• Vladimir Entov – applied mathematician and physicist
• Pavel Etingof - Russian-American mathematician
• Edward Frenkel – Russian-American mathematician
• Alexander Givental – Russian-American mathematician
• Vladimir Gusinsky - media tycoon
• Vladislav Ignatov – businessman and politician
• Yury Luzhkov – politician who was the Mayor of Moscow and one of the founders of the ruling United Russia party
• Mikhail Men - statesman, entrepreneur, musician, composer, producer
• Aliya Mustafina – gymnast
• Leonid Nevzlin – Russian-born Israeli former executive at Yukos, also owns 20% of Haaretz
• Vasiliy Podshibyakin – discoverer of Urengoy gas field the world's second largest natural gas field

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