Hydrocarbons
Key competencies:
- Intelligent systems for oil and gas production processes
- Reclamation of hard-to-reach oil and gas deposits
- Research into natural processes, behavioral modeling of natural objects and complex engineering systems
- Complex solutions for predictive analytics of systems and processes
- Processing and interpretation technologies for geophysical borehole studies
Solid mineral deposits
Key competencies:
- Mineral deposit exploration methods
- Reservoir engineering and operating technologies for mineral deposits
- Behavioral modeling for materials, machines, structures, and facilities
- Evaluating critical condition of facilities and processes
New materials and substances
Key competencies:
- Creating unique materials and developing their production methods
- Developing fundamental principles of engineering for multilayered facilities (including materials, goods, structures, and buildings), as well as composite, functionally graded, and smart materials
- Solving fundamental problems concerning physics and mechanics of deformation and breakage of materials of different structure, particularly under extreme conditions
Power engineering
Key competencies:
- Downhole oil production equipment
- Development of automated and smart systems
- Building power generating and gas turbine power units, as well as gas and oil transmission stations
- Rotary steerable systems
- Equipment for additive technologies
Manufacturing and service digitalization and robotization
Key competencies:
- Development of smart automated service systems
- Modern production management technologies
- IoT technologies combined with resource-efficient production (ecoIoT)
- Engineering prospects and processing capabilities for digital data transfer equipment
Ecology and area security
Key competencies:
- City geoecology and forecasting of dangerous geological processes in agglomerations
- Clean-up of cumulative production-induced ecological damage to mining areas
- Social assessment of technological systems
- Evaluation of biogeochemical and microbiological processes in areas affected by processing industry and chemical industry pollution
Chemical engineering
Key competencies:
- New production technologies for the complete cycle of natural raw materials processing
- Efficient reagents for clean mineral extraction from complex ores
- Developing new materials for the national component basis of chemical production
