Gazprom Neft Will Use SKIF to Increase the Efficiency of Oil Production
Gazprom Neft PJSC has become the first industry partner of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the project to create the Siberian Ring Photon Source (SKIF) – the company will use the development to study rocks in the future, Gazprom Neft said in a statement.
The corresponding agreement on the creation of the consortium was signed on the sidelines of the X International Technoprom Forum for Technological Development in Novosibirsk.
“At the SKIF experimental stations it is planned to study the structure of various organic and inorganic substances, including rock samples. The installation will accelerate elementary particles to near-light speed, creating synchrotron radiation. Passing through a rock sample, it will provide detailed information about its structure,” – the message says.
According to expert estimates, the results of research at SKIF will help increase the efficiency of oil production by 10-15%, the company adds.
According to Gazprom Neft, the consortium also includes leading Russian universities and research institutes.
Earlier it was reported that the construction of the SKIF synchrotron began in the vicinity of the science city of Koltsovo in the Novosibirsk region, not far from the SSC “Vector”, on August 25, 2021. According to the revised construction plan for the SKIF Central Collective Use Center, it is planned to launch the synchrotron and stations of the first stage in December 2024, and to begin their trial operation at the beginning of 2025.
According to the initial design, the SKIF CCU will include 30 experimental stations, 14 of which will use the radiation of plug-in devices (placed in straight sections of the main ring 4-6 meters long), and 16 will be located on beams of bending magnets.
At the stations, it is planned to study the structures of biopolymers, the mechanisms of functioning of living organisms, the transmission of hereditary information, the mechanism of action of drugs, the creation of new materials, the study of fast processes, and so on.
SKIF will become the world’s first source of generation 4+ synchrotron radiation with an energy of 3 GeV.
The construction of the Central Collective Use Center “SKIF” was initially estimated at 37.1 billion rubles. The final cost of the entire project is 47.3 billion rubles. The Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences is the general designer and manufacturer of the SKIF equipment, the customer and developer is the Institute of Catalysis of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
