On November 22, 2025, Andriy Romanovych Stepaniuk, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Head of the Department of IAEA, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, gave a popular science report on the topic “Oil and Gas.”
Venue: MODI Art&Wine Gallery (Kyiv, Mala Zhytomyrska 17)
Broadcast recording: https://www.youtube.com/live/qxLMiFAmMC0
What was the report about:
• what oil and gas are, how they were formed, and why they remain key to energy security;
• how the path of raw materials that are transformed into fuel, plastic, and industrial materials begins from the depths of the Earth;
• what does the extraction process look like: geology, engineering, well operation, and raw material preparation;
• what products are obtained from oil: gas, gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, lubricants, polymers, paints, solvents, alcohols, and coke;
• fuel infrastructure during war: vulnerability of refineries, impact of fuel shortage on the front, and the role of actions of Ukrainian forces.
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