Department "Oil" | Department "Gas" | Department "Electroenergy" | Department "Alternative energy sources" | Department "Ecology" | Department "Water ecosystems" | Department "Mathematics, physics and technical sciences" | Department "Building complex" | Department "Economy"

DEPARTMENT "OIL"

Analysis of the natural energy sources shows that today oil and gas are the main products used for development and transport of energy as well as the main raw material for petrochemistry. This is why further refinement of the prospecting and exploration methods for new unconventional oil and gas deposits, rational development of the fields and utilisation of hydrocarbons, always with considerations for environmental impact, represent a most important technical and economic task facing all international community.

Since the very beginning of oil development in the territory of Azerbaijan, it has been and still is a centre where fundamental problems of oil and gas production and refining are being solved. Educational institutions and scientific-research institutes of the Azerbaijan Republic became "a smithy" of technical and scientific specialists for all regions of the former USSR and many foreign countries. This important role of Azerbaijan in the development of the oil and gas industry manifested itself in discovery of the new oil and gas fields . The successes scored required that the interests of the scientific and industrial community had to be properly and effectively represented on the international level.

The membership of the International Ecoenergy Academy is represented by the scientists with extensive experience in the fields of exploration, drilling and oil production, oil refining, petrochemistry, machine building for oil and chemical industry all of whom have contributed heavily in development of their respective technical or scientific fields of expertise. Each of the scientists of the Academy is a founder of an original school and is in charge of research of an international priority. The following are the main directions of activities:

1. Development of new and improvement of the existing technologies of the oil and gas producing industry with the purpose to increase oil and gas production as well as implementation of new scientific and technical developments taking into account economic and environmental problems in the petroleum and petrochemical industry;

2. Development of: - catalysts and catalysis processes for treatment of gases released during production and refining of oil and natural gases; - new processes and reforming of the existing processes with the purpose to improve the environmental situation for the Sumgait industrial complex;

3. Improvement of oil-refining technologies as applied to the existing Baku oil-refineries;

4. Development of new methods and procedures of prospecting and exploration for oil and gas using most recent achievements of the science of Earth and, primarily, fundamental and applied geophysics;

5. Construction of new and improvement of the existing equipment for drilling, production, transportation and storage of oil and gas;

 More than 30 professors and doctors of sciences are involved in the work of "OIL" Department. "OIL" Department consists of 4 sections.

SECTION: ECOENERGETIC PROBLEMS OF DEVELOPMENT OF OIL, GAS AND GAS-CONDENSATE FIELDS IN COMPLICATED CONDITIONS

Main Directions of Scientific Work:

a) Designing horizontal wells and development of drilling technology and techniques in the area of the Caspian Sea and environmental issues of water basins;

b) Development of oil, gas and gas-condensate fields under the complicated recovery conditions;

c) Ways of improvement the environmental aspects of drilling and production of gas and oil;

d) Drilling technology and procedures in complicated conditions.

SECTION: CHEMICAL, TECHNOLOGICAL, ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF UTILISATION OF THE MAIN AND BY- PRODUCTS OF THE OIL-REFINING INDUSTRY

Main Directions of Scientific Work

a) Development of technologies for rational utilisation of heavy oil fractions and gaseous by-products of oil-refining processes;

b) Development of catalysts for purification of environmentally-hazardous gaseous by-products of oil-refining processes;

c) Development of catalysts for the processes of organic synthesis based on a conversion gas.

d) Development of a new class of environmental friendly electrical insulation and lubricating materials;

e) Development of methods of a "qualified" utilisation of wastes produced during production of sulphanol, propylene oxide, epichlorhydrine, glycerine and pyrolytic wastes;

f) Development of catalysis systems for the process of oxidisation chlorinating of chloride-bearing wastes C2-C3.

SECTION: MINERAL ENERGY RESOURCES

Main Direction of Scientific Work:

Development of mineral energy resources using highly-effective, economic and environmental friendly processes.

SECTION: GEOPHYSICAL ASPECTS OF PROSPECTING, EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF NEW ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY AND MORE PROFITABLE OIL AND GAS FIELDS

Main Directions of Scientific Work:

a) Development of new improved procedures and methods of predicting carbon hydrogen deposits in complicated conditions as well as in different plaster and stratigraphic levels and their decoding by types and nature of fluid-saturation;

b) Development of new improved methods of forecasting and evaluation of oil and gas reserves using geophysical data before drilling assessment and exploration wells on the site;

c) Development of a range of rational methods of discovery and commissioning of neglected oil and gas-bearing objects on old fields.