OREANDA-NEWS. April 07, 2014. The representatives of JSC TATNEFT took part in the Round table of the energy efficient technologies Cluster at the "Skolkovo" Innovation Center dedicated to the technologies of crude oil production.

The purpose of the Roundtable organized by the "Skolkovo" Fund was to establish a direct dialogue between the big oil producing, oil service companies and small innovative enterprises for cooperation in the field of new technologies implementation in the oil and gas industry.

The event was attended by representatives of major Russian oil companies: JSC "NK" Rosneft", JSC "Lukoil", JSC "Gazprom Neft", JSC "Bashneft", JSC "Tatneft" and JSC "Zarubezhneft", as well as the scientific and technical centers of these companies. In addition the representatives of expert communities: SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers) and the Expert Council for artificial oil lifting, were invited to participate in the Round table.

Opening the Roundtable, Oleg Pertsovsky, Chief Operating Officer of the "Skolkovo" Fund energy efficient technologies cluster pointed out that the oil and gas sector was becoming one of the most promising and fast developing in the Fund. In 2014 the number of the Center "Skolkovo" member companies involved in developing technologies for the oil and gas sector exceeded 70. The first of startups that   received the Fund's support 1.5 - 2 years ago are already demonstrating essential commercial results.

There will be a full-scale oil and gas "cluster" in operation at the "Skolkovo" Innovation Center by the beginning of 2016. It will include common use centers of the "Skolkovo" Technopark, dozens of successful small companies, several research centers of major oil and gas companies, as well as the oil and gas center of education and science of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technologies.

The participants discussed approaches of the major Russian oil companies to searching, selecting and performing pilot tests of new technologies; promising areas of technological development and specific technologies being developed by innovative companies in the field of crude oil production.

Irina Bobb, Director of TATNEFT's research division "NTC Tatneft" in the IC "Skolkovo" attended the Round table and she said in  her report about the experience of joint research projects with participation of Russian and foreign scientific partners and emphasized the importance of expanding the partnership of the Russian oil companies in research and development.

In the final part of the event a number of innovative companies including the ones, which were not yet the parties to the "Skolkovo" Innovation Center, offered presentations of their projects, and then the heads of the leading companies of the energy efficient technologies Cluster offered their success stories to the meeting participants.