The social and professional community "Nedra" is an association of universities that produce specialists in the mineral resource complex.
The goal of the integration is to improve the quality of education and the scientific research effectiveness, to create a unified scientific and educational environment, to support gifted young researchers and, ultimately, to work more effectively in key industries that ensure the stable development of the Russian economy. The order on the creation of the consortium was signed by Valery Falkov, the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation in October last year. Our university joined the consortium at the end of December 2020 at an online community meeting. In total, 25 universities joined the association, including such leading ones as St. Petersburg State University, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Bauman Moscow State Technical University, STANKIN Moscow State Technological University, Mendeleev Russian University of Chemical Technology, Kazan National Research Technological University, Southern Federal University, Ivanovo State University of Chemical Technology and others.
Vladimir Borzenkov, Director General of the International Center of Competence in Mining and Technical Education under the auspices of UNESCO, who chaired the meeting, noted that such a significant representation of regional universities in the association will help to solve the issues of improving the educational process in the relevant areas of the subsurface mining industries.
Participation in the "Nedra" community will allow combining intellectual and material resources to improve educational and methodological work, expanding publication activity, increasing the competence of teachers, conducting student and postgraduate internships at training bases of partner universities, and sharing laboratory equipment.
NSTU NETI joined the "Nedra" consortium with a significant pool of inventions for the extractive industries.
Among the popular developments of the university is the software created at the Applied Mathematics Department designed to solve the issues of search and exploration of hydrocarbon reserves on the Arctic shelf and in the sea via the creation and subsequent implementation of "smart" exploration technologies.
In 2020, scientists of the university presented a unique pilot plant for processing associated petroleum gases (APG), which will solve the problem of hazardous substances emissions into the environment during oil production, as well as convert this gas into nanofiber carbon and hydrogen as a high-energy additive to fuel for internal combustion engines or gas-piston power plants.
This NSTU NETI student development will allow extracting more oil and gas with the help of directed explosions. The shape and design of the jet charge improved by Ekaterina Grif will solve the main problems in oil and gas production, such as a small inflow of minerals, clogging of perforation channels and destruction of the well cement walls.