TOMSK, Apr
10 – RIA Tomsk. SIBUR along with Gazprom Neft joined the supervisory board of
the Cross-industrial Center of the Tomsk region, where local universities,
research institutes and enterprises will solve problems for holding in
digitalization and new chemical production technologies; corresponding
agreement was signed on Wednesday, the RIA Tomsk correspondent reports.
Earlier it
was reported that in February 2019, the Tomsk region reached an agreement with
Gazprom Neft on the creation of the Cross-industrial Center of joint technological
developments. With the help of the scientific and technological community of
the region (universities, research centers and enterprises of the real sector),
the company hopes to develop new methods for finding and extracting of
hard-to-recover hydrocarbon reserves.
The
agreement on joining the Cross-Industrial Center of the new participant - SIBUR
company – was signed on Wednesday, April 10, by the head of the region Sergei
Zhvachkin, and the member of the board – the executive director of the holding,
Vasily Nomokonov.
"The
main task – is to generate new projects and ideas which we could implement
together with universities and enterprises of the Tomsk region. We already have
quite intensive interaction, but we would like to put it on a more systematic
basis within the framework of this center. We have two main directions -
digitalization and chemical science", – Nomokonov told reporters after signing
the agreement.
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According
to the deputy governor of the Tomsk region Andrey Antonov, who oversees the
creation of the Cross-industrial Center in the regional administration, the
authorities continue to work to attract large companies to work together in
creation and testing of a new technologies. So, after Gazprom Neft and SIBUR,
Rosatom can join the supervisory board of the Center.
"This
is a new work format where large companies do not compete, do not contend, but
work with each other. Where they can assemble a project team of technology
business representatives, university and academic science. At the
Cross-industrial Center we open the doors to the competencies of many Tomsk
organizations", - Zhvvakin said during a meeting with representatives of
SIBUR and Gazprom Neft.