New Skolkovo lab aims to “revolutionize” approach to difficult oil deposits

Earlier this month Skoltech, a private graduate research university hosted by the Skolkovo tech hub on the outskirts of Moscow, unveiled a new laboratory.

Dubbed ‘Center for Hydrocarbon Recovery,’ the new lab is devoted to research and development into technologies for producing oil and gas that cannot be extracted using traditional methods: so-called hard to recover and unconventional resources, including brownfields, heavy oil, tight oil, carbonate and low permeable reservoirs.

Scientists will study the processes that occur in oil reservoirs at depths of several kilometers, and apply the results of their research to develop new solutions for the production of conventional and unconventional resources.

Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich and Skolkovo Foundation president Victor Vekselberg visited the lab together with Gazprom Neft CEO Alexander Dyukov.