Oil and Gas Faculty

About faculty

The Oil and Gas Faculty was among the first, which was formed in 1990 in the structure of the Atyrau Oil and Gas University and was called the Oil Faculty.

Faculty history

1990

Education of the Oil and Gas Faculty

Subsequently, on the basis of the oil faculty, "technological" and "economic" faculties were created, now the two leading faculties of the university, therefore the oil and gas faculty deservedly has the status of "Kara shanyrak".

In the same 1990, the departments "Geology", "General Physics" were formed. In the same years, the departments "Drilling of oil and gas wells", "Development and operation of oil and gas fields" were formed.

2015

As part of the implementation of trilingual education at the university in 2015, an English-language department with a degree in Oil and Gas was opened at the faculty.

Since the 2015 academic year, the Polygon educational program has been implemented at the Atyrau Oil and Gas University. Currently, within the framework of this program, the faculty is successfully developing dual training in bachelor's specialties 5B070800 - "Oil and Gas Business" and 5B070600 - "Geology and Exploration of Mineral Deposits" together with JSC Embamunaigas, LLP Zhigermunayservice, LLP KazNIGRI. A special contribution to the implementation of dual education is made by Embamunaigas JSC, the first partner and the first enterprise through which graduates of this program were graduated. Thanks to dual training, students are provided with opportunities for obtaining theoretical education, as well as practical skills directly in production.

2015-2016

Within the framework of the State Program for Industrial and Innovative Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the faculty trains bachelors in the specialty 5B070800 - "Oil and Gas Business" under the educational programs: "Development and operation of oil and gas fields" and "Production and preparation of well products.".

Modern laboratories

In the educational process of students, the most modern laboratories are used. To improve the quality of personnel training, a new generation of laboratory equipment “Virtual Field” was purchased. This is a unique equipment used by students of the oil and gas faculty.

On the basis of the Center for the Development of Communication named after N.U. Balgimbaev has unique laboratories, simulators, digital stands for drilling, production and field treatment of oil and gas, which are used for practical and laboratory studies of students.

Faculty laboratory rooms

• Oil and gas well survey
• Drilling simulator АМТ-221 ",
• Well workover simulator AMT-401 ",
• Virtual field
• Oil and gas field modeling
• Well development and operation simulator AMT-601
• Driller's chair simulator AMT-231

The graduates of the faculty successfully work in domestic and foreign large industrial enterprises of the oil and gas industry.

Teaching staff of the faculty

The core of the teaching staff of the Oil and Gas Faculty is made up of full-time teachers with extensive academic experience, high-level professional skills, capable of educating students by example.

The faculty of the Oil and Gas Faculty consists of graduates of the leading oil and technical universities in Almaty, Moscow, Leningrad, Ufa, Grozny, Tashkent, etc.

All teachers of the faculty took advanced training courses in various foreign universities: Roberto Gordon University (Aberdeen, Scotland), Russian State University of Oil and Gas. Gubkina (Moscow), Ufa State Petroleum Technical University, Universities of Colorado (Denver) and Louisiana (Alexandria) (USA), Seinayoki University (Finland), Alstrontelecom Almaty, foreign partners are also invited to Atyrau.

Educational programs

According to the rating of educational programs "Atameken" educational programs "Oil and Gas Business", "Geology and Exploration of Mineral Resources", "Geodesy and Cartography" took the 1st place.

Within the framework of the program of external academic mobility, agreements have now been concluded with such universities as: State Higher School of Vocational Training. Ya.A. Komensky Leszno (Poland), Astrakhan State Technical University (Russia), Russian State University of Oil and Gas "named after M. Gubkina (Russia), Polytechnic University in Turin (Italy), University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague (Czech Republic), Lane Community College (USA), Azerbaijan State University of Oil and Industry (Azerbaijan), "Rompetrol Refineries S.A." (Romania).

For the purpose of practical training of students at the faculty, there is an educational and production program "Polygon" in a dual form of training, where students successfully combine theoretical training at the university with work on a rotational basis at the Prorva oil fields of the NGDU Zhylyoimunaigaz and Vostochny Moldabek and B. Zholamanova "Kainarmunaygas" developed by JSC "Embamunaigas".

Practice and employment

The connection of the faculty with the industry is one of the key factors for the success of educational activities.

The teaching staff of the faculty is always looking for the most effective ways of developing both the educational process and involving themselves and students in solving specific projects that arise in the oil and gas industries.

Close relations of the faculty with leading industrial enterprises and companies of the region and region help in the implementation of urgent tasks:

• implementation of dual learning;
• development of new and updating the content of existing educational programs;
• implementation of various projects in the areas of professional activity;
• providing partner support in holding various events, contests, Olympiads, etc.;
• providing sponsorship in updating the teaching and laboratory facilities of the faculty.

The implementation of the above tasks is also facilitated by close ties with past graduates who successfully work in their specialties.

The main bases for the practice are the following enterprises: JSC Embamunaigas (NGDU Zhaiykmunaigaz, NGDU Dossormunaygaz, NGDU Zhylyoimunaigaz, NGDU Kainarmunaygaz), JSC NIPI Kaspiymunaygazy, LLP NIPI Kaspiymunaygazy , KazNIGRI LLP, Sazankurak LLP, Embavedioil LLP, Matin JV, Caspian Energy Research LLP, Worley Parsons, NCOC, KazTransOil JSC, SBP KazMunaygaz Burenie LLP, etc.

Partners

Scientific and applied research

One of the components of the faculty's activities is the participation of the teaching staff in the development of scientific projects, both through the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and commercial research projects - these are orders-projects of both government agencies and private companies. In addition, the teaching staff of the faculty publish the results of their scientific research in various international rating journals recommended by the KKSON MES RK, included in the Scopus and WebofScience databases, and also participate with reports at international, republican conferences.

Research projects in 2020

Achievements of students of the oil and gas faculty