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Safe loading and transport of hydrocarbons from the Barents Sea (Acronym: SafeLOT)
A SCIENTIFIC NORWEGIANRUSSIAN EXCHANGE PROGRAM ON HIGHER UNIVERSITY EDUCATION. Sponsored by SIU. Project number CPRU2007/10006
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THE LATEST NEWS:
23.09.2011
23 September 2011 SafeLOT PhD student (20082010) Anatoly Sinitsyn has presented the thesis with title
"Pile foundations in plastically frozen soils " in the B. E. Vedeneev AllRussia Research institute of hydraulic engineering (VNIIG) open jointstock company
Saint Petersburg.
The defense was very successful and now we have a great pleasure to congratulate Anatoly with great result of his effort. He came first time
on Svalbard in August 2007 and took the AT courses in Autumn 2007 and Spring 2008 semesters. After that Anatoly spent plenty of time
doing experiments at UNIS, working at SPbSTU, elaborating the models and writing the articles.
We wish Anatoly all the best in his future work.
15.07.2011
21st International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions (POAC11) has been held in Montreal, Canada on 915 July 2011.
POAC began in 1971 in Trondheim, Norway, and since then, it has been held on a regular basis every two years at different international venues. Over the years, this conference has been the mainstay of Arctic engineering conferences and typically attracts over 150 participants to each conference. See the history of POAC and online publication here. On POAC11 the SafeLOT team has been presented by 7 participants with total 11 oral presentations. See the list of abstracts here . Prof.
Sveinung Løset hold keynote lecture with the title "Research Related to Arctic Offshore Field Developments in Deep Eurasian Waters"
UNIS and SafeLOT team near Basilica NotreDame de Montreal. Photo Nataly Marchenko
01.03.2011
Five Russian students study and work at Arctic Technology department in spring 2011. Here are they at UNIS cantina. From the left: Dmitry Bystrov (SPbSTU) continues his autumn studies, Nikita Onishchenko (MSU) and Anna Pustogvar (SPbSTU) are new;
Sergey Kulyakhtin and Renat Yulmetov (MIPT) were at UNIS in Autumn 2009.
05.10.2010
Studies in the Arctic. In the frame of AT301 course "Arctic Infrastructures in a Changing Climate" the group of students made a boat trip to Pyramiden. Please find the foto report by Maria Sidorova here.
AT301 group. SafeLOT students are ready for boat trip to Pyramiden: Dmitry Bystrov (on the left), Maria Sidorova (in the centre) and Sergey Gavrilin (on the right)
SafeLOT students for Autumn 2010
10.09.2010
The new group of SafeLOT students has arrived to UNIS for autumn semester 2010.
They are (from the left on the foto) Sergey Gavrilin (MIPT), Maria Sidorova
(MSU), Dmitry Bystrov (SPbSTU).
They will take recommended combination of courses AT301, AT323; AT
327 and will stay in Longyearbyen until the beginning of December.
To make acquaintance with them go here.
It will be the last semester for SafeLOT project and the next step in NorwegianRussian collaboration in Arctic Technology.
For all period since 1996 more ca. 40 students have been studing at UNIS. PRESS ALUMNI button to see all of them.
25 students from Russia have been involved for SafeLOT period 20082010. There were
8 students from (SPbSTU).
14 students from MIPT
3 from from Lomonosov Moscow State University
11.06.2010
Today (11 June 2010) two SafeLOT students have successfully defended their Master thesis in the
Institute of engineering science, Russian Academy of Science.
Anton Sigitov was UNIS student in Autumn 2008 and Spring 2010. Dmitry Brazhnikov studied at UNIS in spring 2009. During the studies, Anton and Dmitry did lad and field experiments, mathematical model and numerical calculation under supervising of professor Aleksey Marchenko.
The title of Anton’s Master dissertation is "Investigation of sea ice permeability by sea water". Dmitry has carried out the project “Investigation of stressstain state of ice fields
under the action of a cyclone”.
Mikhail Naumov (UNIS, spring 2010) had effective presentation of his Master thesis in 9 June.
OUR CONGRATULATION to students and their supervisor!
Dmitry and Anton after the defense.
30.05.2010
SafeLOTl Ph.D. student Anatoly Sinitsyn (SPbSPU/UNIS), carried out series of laboratory
experiments for thesis “Mechanical properties of frozen saline soils in the basements of structures”
(preliminary title). Supervisor: Karl Shkhinek, cosupervisor: Sveinung Løset . Laboratory work was in process during March and April in Cold Laboratory (UNIS).
Experiments for definition of longterm and dynamic strength behaviours of frozen saline clay and silt at temperatures close to the beginning of freezing pore moisture were
performed.
A brief photo report of experiment is presented here (photos: Claire Chenot, Anatoly Sinitsyn).
Anatoly Sinitsyn. Creative moment.
Photo:Ekaterina Garankina
Dmitry Sharapov in UNIS computer LAB
Mikhail Naumov (MIPT) in Longyearbyen
20.05.2010
The third spring semester of SafeLOT activity has almost gone.
Students are preparing to AT208 exam and retracing the detail of their study at UNIS. Dmitry Sharapov and Maxim Yazarov (SPbSTU) have spent 9 months in Longyearbyen.
They got important techniques, learned how to survive in the Arctic and enjoyed the life in Nybyen. Now they would like to share their reminiscences.
The photo report and impressions of field part of AT208 in Svea by Dmitry Sharapov (photo on the left) can be found here.
30.04.2010
SafeLOT team departed from Longyearbyen on board of research vessel Lance to the Barents Sea. This study and scientific expedition is the part of AT208 course.
It is the 4th cruise for Prof. Aleksey Marchenko. Maxim Yazarov (SPbSTU), Anton Sigitov, Mikhail Naumov (MIPT) Dimitry Sharapov (SPbSTU) are the beginner. Sergey Sukhorukov (NTNU now) will
sail in the 2nd time, Aleksey Shestov (UNIS) – in the 3rd . 23.04.2010
Mikhail Naumov is a master student in MIPT, department of
Aeromechanics and Flying Engineering, sub department of Problems in Oil and Gas Industry. He came to UNIS for spring 2010 to study AT
205 and AT208 courses and to finish his master's thesis.
Mikhail studies sea ice interaction with offshore structures: loads from thermal expansion of ice, movement of ice on the structures and collision of iceberg with offshore platform. Some interesting results were obtained during experiments on the measuring of the coefficient of thermal expansion using fiber optic instruments.
Recently he began to work as an engineer for Gazprom VNIIGAZ LLC, Moscow.
VNIIGAZ approve Mikhail’s staying in UNIS as additional training.
We hope, that he will finish his thesis successfully and wishing him good luck.
Read about Mikhail's master project "Penetration of indenters through ice" here
Anton Sigitov (MIPT) on Svalbard
22.04.2010
Two SafeLOT students from MIPT work now at UNIS on master projects and take UNIS courses (AT 208) at the same time. They both are sitting together in one office for master, do field work together and their projects have some connection.
One of them is Sigitov Anton (on photo from the left side), student of department of aerophysics and space research of MIPT. This is his second stay on Svalbard as UNIS student. On autumn 2008 Anton took AT301, AT323; AT327 courses and made project on thermal
expansion of sea ice. Now the theme of his work is permeability of sea ice under the supervision of professor Aleksey Marchenko. He will defend his thesis in June this year (2010).We wish Anton good luck with his investigations.
Read about Anton's master project "Sea ice permeability investigations" here
15.02.2010
Five Russian students study and work at Arctic Technology department in spring 2010. One of them, Mikhail Naumov (in the middle
of photo) is new, the other four continue their studies.
( Dimitry Sharapov (SPbSTU), Sergey Marchenko (MSU) Mikhail Naumov (MIPT), Maxim Yazarov (SPbSTU) and Anton Sigitov (MIPT)
18.09.2009
9th International Conference/Exhibition for Oil and Gas Resources Development of the Russian Arctic and CIS Continental Shelf RAO/CIS Offshore 2009 has been held in SaintPetersburg September 15
18, 2009. More than 200 companies, state enterprises, research institutes and universities took part. Among them there were 8 participants of SafeLOT project.
On the conference four students were awarded in the student competition between 23 students. SafeLOT PhD student Anatoly Sinitsyn was awarded as one of the four.
Here he is together with his supervisor: Karl Shkhinek, cosupervisor: Sveinung Løset.
OUR WARMEST CONGRATULATION.
Please have a look on Anatoly’s RAO paper “ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ МЕХАНИЧЕСКИХ
ХАРАКТЕРИСТИК МЕРЗЛЫХ” ГРУНТОВ ПОБЕРЕЖИЙ АРКТИЧЕСКИХ МОРЕЙ"
and its English version “INVESTIGATIONS OF MECHNICAL PROPERTIES OF PLASTICALLYFROZEN
SOILS OF ARCTIC COASTS” AND Some other photos from the conference.
19.08.2009
The new autumn semester has begun at UNIS. New SafeLOT students came on the Monday night, 17 August 2009 to Longyearbyen. They have been met by ass. prof. Aleksey Marchenko (on the left).
The new students (from the left) are Dimitry Sharapov and Maxim Yazarov (SPbSTU), Sergey Kulyakhtin and Renat Yulmetov (MIPT).
Students began with Safety Course and short introduction to AT301 by ass. prof. Jan Otto Larsen today, 19 August 2009. The exiting adventure, boat trip to abandoned Russian settlement Piramiden will
be Tomorrow. We wish SafeLOT students ALL THE BEST.
19.06.2009
20th International Conference POAC2009 had been held at 912 Juni 2009 i Luleå (Sweden) on the base of Luleå University of Technology. POAC means “Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions”
Well known and respected explorers in the field of Arctic Technology and young researchers as well gather together every second year for speeches and discussions. The previous POAC2007 was organized by Dalian University (China), the next one will be in Montreal (Canada).
SafeLOT team was presented on POAC2009 by 6 professors (Karl Shkhinek, Sveinung Løset, Aleksey Marchenko, Knut Høyland, Ove Tobias Gudmestad, Marina Karulina), 2 PhD students (Sergiy
Sukhorukov and Aleksey Shestov), 2 future UNIS students Maxim Yazarov
and Dimitry Sharapov and project secretary.
Visit POAC 2009 official site http://www.ltu.se/shb/poac09
29.05.2009
Spring semester 2009 at UNIS has almost finished. SafeLOT students have acquired a lot of useful information, studied important techniques and would like to share their reminiscences.
Please find here short photo reports about some of UNIScourses by Dmitry Kuznetsov:
A quick glance at the AT329 course COLD REGIONS FIELD INVESTIGATIONS February – March 2009
and
PERMAFROST IMPRESSIONS AND PERIGLACIAL SCENERIES an overview of AG330 course
April – May 2009
Ice block pulling
29.04.2009
The new study and scientific expedition started from Longyearbyen 29 April 2009.
We hope that 10 days on the board of research vessel Lance will be fruitful and interesting for SafeLOT students and professors.
This is the continuation of AT208 course “ThermoMechanical Properties of Materials”.
The first part of field work for this course was at SVEA 1012 March 2009.
Students photoreport about this exiting SVEA experience by Dmitry Brazhnikov read here.
09.03.2009
"Ice model testing in natural environment". 78 march 2009
At this windy and drumly weekend SafeLOT team with financial support of MarSafe High North project, logistic support by Jonh Inge Karlsen and friendly help of ass. prof. Riko Noormets (AG) have carried out unique experiment on iceberg towing. They made channel 30 m long and 2.5 m wide in the Longyearbyen harbor. The ice thickness was 50 cm. So these strong men have replaced 35 tons of ice and had a chance to try nature test with real sea ice and water.
Photo report about preparation and test procedure see here.
The results of this titanic effort will be described partially in Anton Kulyakhtin Master Thesis, scientific papers and books.
Read about Russian Students and their projects here
Read about Aleksey's master thesis and today project here
Sergey Sukhorukov graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and known for Longyearbyen habitants as one from “Store Norske male choir” .
He came at UNIS as a first MIPT student at August 2006 for AT301, AT323; AT327 and continued at autumn 2008 with AT209 course.
Now he studies AT208 and investigates ice friction.
Sergey carries out a great deal of small scale laboratory tests, using this “magic” device – Knekkis (on the photo). He continues the experiment, which had been began by lastyear Master student at UNIS Marco Nanetti. The stickslip interaction between ice and rough steel surfaces has been detected in these experiments. This kind of icematerial interaction wasn't observed and described in the literature earlier.
For better understanding of such phenomenon Sergey modified experimental procedure, designed additional base and carried out few types of experiments with freshwater ice. Based on the results of the experiments he evaluated local pressure that arises between ice and steel hollow cylinder during their relative motion.
Read about Sergey’s project STICK SLIP INTERACTION OF ICE WITH STEEL SURFACES here
Six Russian students study and work at Arctic Technologydepartment in spring 2009. Four of them (on the right side) have been at UNIS before. But two of them (on the left) came to Svalbard for the first time. They are sponsored by SafeLOT, NorthPOP projects and SUI and represent 4 Moscow Institutes.
Dmitry Kuznetsov (MSU, lab. Geoecology of the North), Dmitry Brazhnikov (MIPT), Tatiana Drotikova (RAS), Victor Kulibaba (MSU, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics), Anton Kulyakhtin (MIPT), Sergey Sukhorukov
(MIPT)
Aleskey Shestov begins a new PhD project, supported by SafeLOT project and UNIS. Aleskey had been at UNIS twice before as MIPT student. He studied Arctic technology on autumn 2006 and spring 2008. His Master thesis defended at June 2008 in Moscow was a result of his field exploring at Van Mijenfjord fjord.
He is going to work 4 years on PhD project with working title “Dynamic and mechanical properties of sea ice in the shallow regions of arctic shelf”, which will be more extended
investigation of hydrology and ice dynamic in the Van Mjienfjorden to obtain a conception about processes which take place in the areas of coalmining industry structures.
Professors Sveinung Løset and Aleksey Marchenko will be Aleksey’s supervisors
09.12.2010
Anatoly Sinitsyn has spent the whole year on Svalbard, studding UNIScourse and carrying out his PhD project “Hydrotechnical
structures in cold clime”. This project is part of SafeLOT project. On September 2008 Anatoly came back to SaintPetersburg to continue his work.
All his time on Svalbard Anatoly was completely happy, smiled every minute, even bearing heavy buckets with soil for experiments and driving snow scooter in – 30o C effective temperature.
We are waiting a brilliant thesis from him.
Read about Anatoly's project here
The autumn semester started at UNIS at the 15th of August 2008. The new group of Russian student, sponsored by SafeLOT project, arrived to Longyearbyen to study Arctic Technology.
The group consist of three students from MIPT (Elena Pogorelova, Anton Sigitov Sergey Sukhorukov – leftupper corner of photo) and two from SPbSTU (Ekaterina Belova and Aleksandr Klevakin – on the right side).
They will attend AT301, AT323; AT327 and AT209 courses.
We wish them all the best.
Joint activities for the petroleum industry in the Arctic
The Research Council of Norway and the Russian Academy of Science held the 3rd
Norway Russia Arctic Offshore Workshop in St. Petersburg, at 1718 of June 2008.
SafeLOT participants have assembles at St. Petersburg for the first meeting also in these days.
Arctic Technology students arrived to Longyearbyen May 15 2008 after cruise on research vessel
“LANCE”.
Please follow the link to find fotoreport and scientific report about "LANCE2008" cruise.
