Igor Shpurov

Teaching courses

  • Oil and gas geology
  • Oil and Gas Resources and Reserves Estimation
  • Petroleum  Development Technology of Unconventional Reserves

E-mail: i.shpurov@spbu.ru

Phone: (812) 363-61-95

Education, scientific degrees and titles

  • 1987 – specialist in mining engineering (Tumen industrial institute)
  • 2001 – PhD in geology
  • 2015 – PhD in technical Sciences (PhD thesis term is "Scientific and methodological justification for the effective development of hard-to-recover oil reserves of Jurassic deposits in Western Siberia based on detailed geological and technological modeling")

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Research interests

oil and gas geology, research and exploration of hydrocarbon deposits


Key publications

  • Shpurov, I., Tudvachev A. , 2015. Justification of the boundary values of permeability reservoirs in their differentiation into classes with high and low filtration potential // Neftyanoe Khozyaystvo - Oil Industry, 73-75.


Other professional activities

  • European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers (EAGE) member
  • Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) member
  • First Deputy Chairperson of the Bureau for the Classification of Reserves of the United Nations Energy Commission for Europe
  • Honored Geologist of the Russian Federation
  • Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences

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