Instytut Nafty i Gazu - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy

Credibility, respect, honesty and comradeship are just some of features for which the Institute received an award in the prestigious 2010 edition of a Great Place to Work competition. It was the second time the Institute had won this award. The rankings on the prestigious Great Place to Work Poland 2010 list emerged after over forty thousand employees had been surveyed.

For solutions presented at international exhibitions for innovations and invention solution in the years 2008-2015, the Oil and Gas Institute obtained more than 400 medals, diplomas, awards and special prizes. Inventions of the Institute were awarded at exhibitions in such places as: Brussels, Nuremburg, Moscow, Budapest, Geneva, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, Sevastopol, Zagreb, Bucharest and Warsaw. The Institute has been awarded diplomas three times by Minister of Science and Higher Education for special activity in the promotion of inventions abroad.

In the INNOVATION LAUREL 2012 competition, organised by the Polish Federation of Engineering Associations – NOT, in the Ecology, Surveying, Water Management category, the Oil and Gas Institute received a Gold, Silver and Bronze Innovation Laurel.

In 2010, the Jury of Polish Promotional Emblem (Polskie Godło Promocyjne) awarded the Institute with the Polish promotional emblem „Teraz Polska” in III edition of the Innovative Projects competition. The award was granted for a technology called “Modified catalytic hydrogen process for the regeneration of waste oils”, which was implemented on an industrial scale in 2008 in the Rafineria Nafty Jedlicze SA oil refinery. The technology also received a distinction in the Polish Product of the Future competition and a Gold Medal at the POLEKO 2008 International Fair in Poznan.

In December 2012, Bureau Veritas Certification Poland awarded to the Institute the Excellent Quality Organisation 2012 prize. This prize is a special title awarded to those organisations which especially take into consideration quality, safety, environmental protection and social responsibility aspects in their activities. The basis for the award involves satisfying ten demanding criteria developed by the auditors of Bureau Veritas Certification.

In 2010, The Oil and Gas Institute won the Business Cheetahs (Gepardy Biznesu) statuette, counting it among the most dynamically developing companies in the Małopolskie (Lesser Poland) Voivodeship.

The 10th edition of the Business Gazelles (Gazele Biznesu) Competition, organized by the Puls Biznesu (Business Pulse) magazine, earned the Institute a distinction in the ranking of voivodeships, when it achieved the top position from among all the institutes to be ranked on a nationwide scale.

In 2007, the Institute won an award in the Minister of Environment’s Geology 2007 competition. The award was granted for the CO2 sequestration technology developed under the direction of Professor Jan Lubaś, DSc Eng, of the Institute’s Krosno Branch and in collaboration with the PGNiG SA (Polish Petroleum and Gas Production) branch in Zielona Góra.

The Oil and Gas Institute, together with Biatel Info Automatyka SA, won the Grand Prix at the 11th International Oil and Gas Fair 2006, for the high technical level and modernity of its ANAT-M automatic analyzer of THT in gas. The THT ANAT-M analyzer also received the prestigious Polish Chamber of Commerce Chairman’s prize.

 
  • giving opinions on PKN, ISO and CEN standardization documents and participation in the standardization work of ISO and CEN Technical Committees in the following thematic areas:
    • Secretariat of the Technical Committee No. 31 on Oil and Gas Production:
      • drilling and production equipment,
      • drilling exploratory and production wells for petroleum and natural gas,
      • hydrocarbon reservois management,
      • equipment of production wells,
      • underground gas storage in depleted reservois, waterlogged structures and in salt caverns,
      • drilling and exploratory geophysics;

         

    • Secretariat of the Technical Committee No. 277 on Gas Engineering and Subcommittees: for Measurements and Assessment of Gaseous Fuel Quality, for Gaseous Fuel Distribution, for Gaseous Fuel Transmission and for Gas Use:
      • natural gas transmission and distribution systems,
      • engineering facilities (storage facilities, pumping stations, gas stations),
      • natural gas quality assessment,
      • measuring instrument communication systems and remote reading of measurement results,
      • gas receivers (heaters, boilers, preheaters, ovens, dryers, dishwashers and radiators, including their equipment and accessories), gas tourist equipment (including cylinder equipment);
  • conducting the Secretariats of the TC No. 31 and 277, including 4 Subcommittees;
  • preparing Polish Standards PN introducing European Standards (EN) and International Standards (ISO) in the field of testing requirements and methods, TC No. 31 and 277;
  • preparing own Polish Standards in the field of TC No. 31 and 277.

Supervisior: Andrzej Król, MSc. Eng.
Address: 25 A Lubicz Str., 31-503 Cracow, POLAND
Phone: +48 12 617 76 36
Fax: +48 12 430 38 85
E-mail: andrzej.krol@inig.pl

The Institute’s publishing activity is an essential part of its operations. It publishes a monthly, “NAFTA-GAZ” (“Oil-Gas”) collections of monographs under the generic title of “Prace Naukowe INiG” (“Scientific Works of the Oil and Gas Institute”) and an annual publication entitled “Rynek Polskiej Nafty i Gazu” (“The Polish Petroleum and Natural Gas Market”) which popularize the knowledge of gas engineering and crude oil processing. The Institute is also the publisher of numerous special publications, some of them related to the conferences it has organized.

The Institute runs a library which collects titles in a range of fields, including petroleum geology, geophysics, deposit engineering, oil industry, gas industry, environmental protection, chemistry and the refining and petrochemical industry. On the whole, the collection includes almost one hundred thousand books and over ten thousand magazines and it contains a number of unique items relating to the origins of the Polish oil industry. The library subscribes to a great many Polish and international magazines and in some cases it is the only place in the country to do so. Digitised library resources are available at www.bc.ing.pl.

The Institute also runs the Special Collections Library which was established in 1970. It collects scientific, research and service publications. Written and compiled by the Institute’s staff, they span a period of time from 1945 to the present day. The Special Collections Library also holds a collection of the State Geological Institute’s publications, such as geological atlases, and drillings and water catalogues. The library’s catalogue of collections is available on the Institute’s website at www.krakow-inig.sowwwa.pl.

 

Scientific and Technical Information Centre
Supervisior: Wojciech Łyko, MA
Address: 25 A Lubicz Str., 31-503 Cracow, POLAND
Phone: +48 12 617 76 23
Fax: +48 12 430 38 85
E-mail: wojciech.lyko@inig.pl

 

The Oil And Gas Institute Scientific Library
Supervisior: Jadwiga Komońska, MA
Address: 1 Łukasiewicza Str., 31-429 Cracow, POLAND
Phone: +48 12 617 74 99
Fax: +48 12 617 75 22
E-mail: biblioteka@inig.pl

Opened: Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

 

The Oil And Gas Institute Scientific Library, Krosno Branch
Address: 3 Armii Krajowej Str., 38-400 Krosno, POLAND
Phone: +48 13 436 89 41 extn. 5114
Fax: +48 13 436 79 71
E-mail: wojciech.kuzmik@inig.pl

 

 

The Institute participated in the implementation of projects financed from structural funds, EU and international programmes:
  • The Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Framework Programmes, EUREKA and Intelligent Energy Europe programmes, the Neighbourhood Poland – Belorussia – Ukraine Programme INTERREG IIIA/TACIS CBC 2004-2006, Increase in Enterprises Competitiveness Sectoral Operational Programme and Development of Human Resources Sectoral Operational Programme, projects financed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Norwegian Financial Mechanism and Financial Mechanism of European Economic Area, Innovative Economy Operational Programme 2007-2013, Priority 1 “Research and Development of New Technologies”, sub-measure 1.3.1 Development Projects.

The Institute now participates in projects implementation under:

  • Innovative Economy Operational Programme 2007-2013, Priority 1 “Research and Development of New Technologies”, sub-measure 1.3.1 “Specialised chemicals ensuring continuous extraction of oil and gas deposits”;
  • Innovative Economy Operational Programme 2007-2013, Priority 2: “R&D Infrastructure”, Measure 2.3.1 and 2.3.2 “Development of the IT infrastructure of the Oil and Gas Institute and creation of information resources of science in a digital form for the oil and gas sector”;
  • grants financed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency – “Agricultural sector in Poland: Assessment of possibilities to obtain methane from animal breeding waste”, “Polish consortium for energy utilisation of landfill gas as a platform supporting knowledge transfer and project development”;
  • programmes financed by the National Centre for Research and Development: Innotech, In-Tech path, Programme of Applied Research and financed by the National Science Centre in the field of basic research.

The Institute has been cooperating with scientific centres from Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, United States, Switzerland, Norway, Spain, France, Germany, United Kingdom and other countries.

The Oil and Gas Institute is a member of: Oil and Gas Industry Engineers and Technicians Association of NOT (SITPNiG), International Fuel Quality Center (IFQC), Main Council of Research Institutes, Polish Inventors and Rationalisers Association (SPWiR), Coordinating European Council of the Oil and Motor Industries Cooperation (CEC), Polish Tribological Society, Polish Zeolite Society, Polish Combustion Institute, LABTQ, International Association Handling & Storage Liquid Fuels.

The Institute participates in the work of expert groups:

  • EU expert groups: GADAG, NBGA, EEC–Working Party on Gas, BEDAG,
  • international networks: ENVITECH-Net, Polish Combustion Institute,
  • working groups: IGU-WG Exploration, IGU-WG Production, IGU-WG Transmission, IGU-WG Underground Gas Storage, IGU-WG Utilisation; CEC – Coordination European Council for the Development of Performance Tests for Transportation Fuels, Lubricants and Other Fluid; IFQC – International Fuel Quality Center (USA).

The Institute has been supporting the activities of the Polish Committee for Standardisation by running three secretariats of national Technical Committees: 277 for Gas Engineering, 31 for Oil and Gas Production, 222 for Oil Products and Operational Fluids.

 

Planning and Projects Coordination Section: 
Barbara Nocoń, MA
Address: Lubicz 25A, 31-503 Krakow, POLAND
Phone: +48 12 430-34-28, +48 12 421-00-33 extn. 218 Fax: +48 12 430-38-85
E-mail: barbara.nocon@inig.pl

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