Rosneft company and the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Social Development (Qatar Fund) in the framework of the XXIV St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (PMEF-2021) signed an agreement on the development of cooperation in the field of science, technology and education. This is reported by NK. The current agreements have become a continuation of a similar agreement between the parties of March 28, 2018.
In accordance with the agreements, the parties intend to organize advanced training and retraining of Russian and Qatari specialists and engineers in educational institutions supervised by the Qatari Fund, and in leading Russian partner universities “Rosneft”.
In addition, Rosneft and the Qatar Foundation will exchange scientific and technical information in the field of oil and gas industry and will consider the possibility of developing and implementing joint research programs. Priority areas of research will become engineering plastics and polymers, oils and lubricants, gas processing, petrochemistry, green chemistry and others. To implement Rosneft research programs and the Qatar Foundation will create a joint laboratory complex at the International Center for Research and Development of the NC, which is located on the territory of the Qatari Park of Science and Technology.
Also in the PMEF-2021 fields Rosneft and the Qatar Foundation signed a Memorandum on the development of engineering infrastructure for the implementation of technological projects in order to create a previously mentioned joint laboratory complex.