Recently Professor Harchenko Yuri Alekseyevich and Associate Professor Ballycki Vladimir Pavlovic from Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas (GRSUOG), one of the Worldwide Energy University (WEUN) members, visited China University of Petroleum-Beijing (CUPB) for academic exchanges, invited by the College of Safety and Ocean Engineering of CUPB. On 2nd July morning, representatives from WEUN Secretariat, CUPB International Office, College of Safety and Ocean Engineering attended the academic seminar.
First, Jun Yao, the Deputy Secretary-General of WEUN Secretariat, introduced the progress of the 111 Project of "Offshore Oil and Gas Production Safety Engineering". Later, Jin Yang, the Deputy Dean of the College of Safety and Ocean Engineering, introduced current cooperation between the two universities, as well as the future cooperation plan on the polar cold sea oil and gas exploitation technology.
At the seminar, Professor Aleksheyevich made a detailed introduction of the Russian oil and gas reserves, the difficulty of exploitation and six solutions suggested. He introduced the three characteristics of FPSO (Floating Production Storage and Offloading) and the principle of personnel allocation. He pointed out that oil workers should use underwater production systems to prevent damages to pipelines from icebergs and ice floes during natural disasters. Associate Professor Pavlovich introduced the main tasks of mechanical drilling including selection of optimization criteria, optimization of time in rock breaking as well as drilling conditions, double optimization to achieve the decisive role of drilling cost on drilling time, and two major factors of drilling optimization (minimum cost per meter and maximum drilling speed). During the seminar, faculties and students raised a lot of questions or discussions with two professors. In the end, Professors Alekseyevich and Pavlovic presented books to CUPB on the spot to express their good wishes for CUPB.
Dr. Alekseyevich is currently a professor of offshore oil and gas field engineering at the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas. He served as the Deputy Director of "Zarubezhneft" offshore oil and gas field development project in the joint venture company RVO, the Director of Orgenergaz OJSC offshore mine development support department, the Head of offshore production facility management department of the Shtokman Project in Gasprom Offshore Oil and Gas Field Development Company, and the Director of Prospective Development Bureau of Sakhalin Branch of Gasprom. Dr. Pavlovic, is currently an associate professor of oil and gas well drilling at the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, and the winner of "Honorary Teacher of Russian Higher Institutions". He has published more than 50 journal papers and books, and has won two national medals.
The 111 Project of “Offshore Oil and Gas Production Safety Engineering” is based on China University of Petroleum-Beijing (CUPB) that has 11 offshore oil and gas research groups coming from 8 countries including China, United Kingdom, United States, Brazil, Russia, Denmark, Norway and Australia. Most focuses on prime safety issues involved in the development and production of offshore oil and gas resources in China and the rest of world. This project aims to promote research progresses of offshore oil and gas safety as well as the output of related offshore oil and gas safety assurance technologies, and to generate a series of relevant standards, software, technical regulations and so on. It will strengthen the construction of an integrated platform for offshore oil and gas safety and security as well as enhance the independent innovation capability of China in safety technology for offshore oil and gas production and equipment systems. In the end, the project provides a strong intellectual basis and support for the construction of “Double First-Rate” university of CUPB.
The Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas is the largest oil and gas university in Russia named after Ivan Gubkin. During the Soviet Era, six colleges were created in areas of mechanical mining, steel, nonferrous metals, gold, coal, and oil exploration. At present, there are 5000 students and eight departments in this university. In 2011, it was selected as one of the second batch of Russian National Research Universities and one of the members of the Association of Sino-Russian Technical Universities (ASRTU).
(Edited by Lu Ji)