the scientific Research information centre including a petroleum museum

Head of the Centre Prof. Yuri M. Polichtchouk E-mail: yuri@ipc.tsc.ru canc@ipc.tsc.ru Phone: 7 (3822) 492227, 491811

Head of the Museum Irina G. Yaschenko E-mail: sric@ipc.tsc.ru Phone: 7 (3822) 491811

Research field:

• Development of the scientific fundamentals of regional geoinformation systems in the field of oil chemistry and geology as well as of environment.

Main achievements:

• There has been developed a GIS-system on petroleum chemistry containing a worldwide database.

• A regional database on the anthropogenic pollution of water, air and soil on the territory of the Tomsk oblast has been created.

• Methodological and software GIS means have been developed for revealing, computer mapping and forecasting of the zones of ecotoxicological hazard on the region territory.

• A complex analysis and forecast of the environment state on the territory of activity of the Eastern Petroleum Company have been carried out.

In 2002 the SRIC staff published more than 30 papers, including the papers in peer-reviewed Russian and foreign journals.

The Petroleum Museum

The Museum includes the exposition, the petroleum depository and an automated databank on the composition and properties of crude oils. The depository contains more than 3000 samples of oils and cores of Russia, Kazakhstan, and Central Asia. The database includes more than 13000 records, including geographic and geologic information on the oil fields and the data on physicochemical properties of crude oils worldwide.

The Laboratory numbers 12 employees, including 1 Professor, 3 Doctors of Sciences, 3 engineers and 4 post-graduate students.