TOMSK, Mar 4 – RIA Tomsk. Academic
reputation of Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) in the field of oil
and gas business improved in 2021: experts of the British agency
Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) assessed the university's achievements in this
indicator as 71.9 points out of 100 possible; TPU was recognized as the
best in this area in Russia, the press service of TPU said.
Earlier
it was reported that in 2020 QS for the first time published the Engineering-Petroleum subject ranking, in which TPU took the 26th place –
the best among all Russian universities. On Thursday, in March, a new
version of the ranking was released, in which Tomsk Polytechnic
University took the 23rd line. The score is based on academic
reputation, employer reputation, research citations per paper and
h-index.
According to the results of the Engineering –
Petroleum subject ranking in 2021, TPU scored 74.5 points. At the same
time, compared to last year, the number of points according to the
indicator "Academic Reputation" increased – up to 71.9 out of 100
possible, the press service notes. The number of points (81.3) according
to the indicator "Employer Reputation" also remains high.
"Such
results became possible thanks to the effective publication work of
university scientists to increase the number of scientific articles in
journals of the 1st and 2nd quartiles, active interaction with foreign
scientists with a high Hirsch index, as well as participation in
international and interdisciplinary research projects," – TPU Acting
Rector Andrey Yakovlev is quoted.
Among productive
interdisciplinary research, Yakovlev listed oilfield chemistry and
machine learning in geology and field development. As for the reputation
of TPU among employers, the high indicator of the university, according
to the acting rector, was facilitated by the university's leadership in
the Russian Federation in terms of the amount of R&D performed – about 2 billion rubles a year.
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"Scientists and engineers
of the university are working on solving urgent and breakthrough
problems in the interests of large companies. For example, such a
large-scale project as Paleozoy ("Paleozoic") is being successfully
implemented, aimed at researching and developing hard-to-recover oil
reserves, a package of technologies is being developed in the direction
of geological and hydrodynamic modeling of oil and gas fields," Yakovlev
said.
Earlier it was reported that the Paleozoy
("Paleozoic") project was launched in the Tomsk region by Gazprom Neft
in cooperation with TPU in 2005. The main goal is to increase the volume
of oil production, the reserves of which at traditional fields in the
region are running out. In 2025, this will lead to a reduction in
production from 10 to 5 million tons per year. The essence of the
project is to develop hard-to-recover oil reserves from pre-Jurassic
deposits.