SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

   À. Oil and Gas Chemistry: Oil dispersed systems. Natural bitumen and oil shale - unconventional hydrocarbon sources: resources, distribution in stratigraphic complexes, compositional and structural features. Regularities in distributions of hydrocarbon, heteroatom and high-molecular compounds in oils, gas condensates and in organic matter of rocks. New methods intended to study oils, composition and structure of oil components.
   Â. Enhanced Oil-and-Gas Recovery, Treatment and Transportation of Oil and Gas. Physicochemical and microbiological methods intended to improve oil, gas and condensate recovery; the impact of EOR methods on composition of the recovered oil; advanced technologies used to treat bottom zones of oil and gas wells; promising technologies for oil and gas conditioning and transportation; problems of production, conditioning and transportation of gas, high-viscosity and highly paraffinic crude.
   Ñ. Rational Use se of Hydrocarbons. New approaches to the processing of hydrocarbon raw materials: oils, natural bitumen and oil shale. New methods for chemical processing of gaseous hydrocarbons. Unconventional methods for deeper oil processing, new products and materials obtained from oil, hydrocarbon gases and synthesis gas. Desulfurization of hydrocarbons and petroleum products. New methods and technologies for treatment, recycling and utilization of industrial waste in oil-and-gas complex.