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The GeOEnergy Center is a non profit organization jointly founded by the Al Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU) and the Kazakh National Technical University after Satpayev (KazNTU), that integrated cooperation with Academic and industrial world. It got the accreditation from the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research for its Academic components. The head-office is located in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

The GeOEnergy Center is constituted by an academic training structures including a Master MSc, PhD program, and professional training, and by an Applied research Consortium.

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Master Graduate students are recognized and recruited worldwide by major industrial and service oil-gas companies and research centres, such as Total, Schlumberger, Beicip-Franlab, GDF Suez, CGG Veritas, Paradigm, Shell, Exxon-Mobile, EMGS, Statoil, Geoproduction Consultants, Geostock, Storengy, Gleencore/KazZink, Katco/Areva/KazAtomProm, and others and others.

Graduate students can work in non-petroleum areas related to the aquifer management, geothermal energy, CO2 storage, radioactive waste storage, mining engineering and various aspects of environment protection.

The Master diploma also offers the possibility to follow a research career via doctoral studies in international research centers.

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Franco-Kazakh partners constitute the scientific potential of the Center: IFPEN - Institut Français du Pétrole Energies Nouvelles, MPT - Mines ParisTech, UPMC - Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, UPST - Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouse, ENS - Ecole Normale Supérieure, UN- Université Nazarbayev (Astana), DTSU - Dulati Taraz State University (Taraz), KNPU Kazakh National Pedagogical University (Almaty), KIOG - Kazakh Institute of Oil and Gas (Astana), IGS - Institute of Geological Sciences of the hol-ding PARASAT (Almaty), IHT - Institute of High Technolo-gies (Almaty).

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Total, Schlumberger, Areva, Katco, KazAtomProm, KazZink, ENGIE, CGG Veritas, Paradigm, COMSOL, BRGM, Geo-production Consultants, Beicip-Franlab, KazZINC, Industrial partners participate to professional trainings, support financially research (PhD, Master), offer Master subjects and internship supports, participate to scientific equipments acquisition, support common scientific re-search projects, and recruit graduate students.

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Marcellin GUILLEMIN, PhD, Director of the Center, French Embassy in Kazakhstan centre.geoenergies@gmail.com ; +7 727 377 35 22

Olivier BOTELLA, Ass. Prof., PHD, Head of the Master program, University of Lorraine olivier.botella@univ-lorraine.fr ; +33 3 83 59 56 75

Madina TUNGATAROVA, PhD KazNU Madina.Tungatarova@kaznu.kz ; +7 701 705 82 97

Aidarkhan KALTAYEV, Prof., KazNU Aidarkhan.Kaltayev@kaznu.kz; +7 727 377 32 06

Talgat ENSEPBAYEV, Prof., PhD, KazNITU tensep@mail.ru; +7 727 292 09 39

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GEO-ENERGIES Centre, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, prospect Al Farabi, 71 - 005500004400 AAllmmaattyy•• KKaazzaakkhhssttaann

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http://geoenergie.kz/ https://www.facebook.com/centre.geoenergies

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Created since 2009, the Franco-Kazakh GeOEnergy Center aims at promoting research & professional academic training in the fields of energy resources, petroleum geosciences, green energy, modeling and geosciences, non conventional geo-resources, mineral resources & exploration, rare elements, geochemistry, and reactive transport in porous media. It provides the expertise of the both French and Kazakh highest scientific actors in engineering both from academics and industry.

Objectives of the GeOEnergy Center are to form local national scientific elites in mineral and energy resources through research work (PhD) and advanced trainings (Msc), in order to satisfy the short term needs in professional specialists for the future economy and industry of Kazakhstan. To meet these objectives, GeOEnergy is a synergetic research structures linking the best local academic, industrial, and management human resources with the best French academic and industrial experts in engineering. The two pillars of the project are training offers and research.

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Academic formations are open to all students from Kazakhstan and Central Asian Region, regardless of their university of origin, but after an open selection.

International Master Program ENERGY

Double Franco-Kazakh Master MSc (duration 2years). 1st year: in Almaty including half French and Kazakh professors (Lectures in English) 2nd year –1st semester: in various Masters of University of Lorraine (Nancy, France) - 2nd semester: 5-month industrial or research internship

Students who successively completed the two-year training program are graduated with a double French and Kazakh degree: French Master Diploma and a Kazakh Diploma of "Магистр".

Doctorate (PhD) at GeOEnergy Double Franco-Kazakh diploma program (duration 3 years) including at least 6 months in French laboratory.

Continuing Professional Training

The continuing professional training and the provision of specific courses for companies is one of the priority for the development of the Geo-Energies Center. Professional training seminars can be organized at request of Companies in various fields related to computational science, numerical modeling, Geo-modeling, fluid flow in reservoirs, geothermal, green energy, mineral estimation & exploration, ore processing, and geology of uranium. Trainings are made by world specialists.

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The Franco-Kazakh research scientific consortium of the GeOEnergy Center develop public/private thematic re-search projects in: process optimization for recovering energy and mineral resources by injection of reactive solvent (in-leaching, miscible EOR, polymers, acid gas recycling, VAPEX for heavy oil), compositional multiphase flow modeling including change of phases, Navier-Stokes flow modeling, organic geochemistry applied to reservoirs, basin modeling, fluid inclusions & micro-thermometry, geomodeling of reservoir and ore deposits, reserves estimation, mineral process optimization, geothermal, and green energy.

The objectives of the GeOEnergy Research Consortium are to work at the front of the edges of advanced numerical modeling, to develop computer codes & IT technologies, to develop new conceptual models of physical processes, to provide laboratory facilities for experimental research and rocks and fluids sample analyzes.

Academic & Associated partners

In France: EOST-Strasbourg, Mines Paris-Tech, IFP, UPMC, ENSAM-Bordeaux, UPS-Toulouse, ENS-Ecoles Normales Supérieures, in Kazakhstan: KING-Astana, NUA-Nazarbayev University of Astana, AING-Atyrau, TUK-Technical University of Karaganda, DTSU-Dalati Tarza State University, in Almaty: KazNU, KazNITU, VGKAP-Volkov-Geologiya of KazAtomProm, IHT, IGN, International IT University.

Some Illustrative Case-Studies

Restoring gold bearing geo-formations (Kakurina et al., 2015)

Stimulating tight reservoir by fluid injection (Nussippkozhaev et al., 2015)

EOR recovery by polymer injection. (Bertier et al., 2015

3D model of the Karaganda coal deposit for coal bedded methane recovery

(Sadykov et al., 2015)

3D modelling of phosphate deposit recovery by polymer injection.

(Royer, 2015)

3D model of the Archaly gold deposit in Kazakhstan

(Tungyshbayeva et al., 2015)

Courtesy of gOcad – Nancy – France

Industrial Partners

Total, Schlumberger, ENGIE, Paradigm, COMSOL, BRGM, Areva, Katco, KazAtomProm, Geoproduction Consultants, Beicip-Franlab, Storengy, KazZINC.