Yuri Makogon
Yuri Fedorovich Makogon (born May 15, 1930 in Ukraine ) is a Soviet (Ukrainian) petroleum engineer. He discovered in the early 1960s that methane hydrate also occurs naturally in sediments.
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Makogon graduated from the Petroleum Academy in Krasnodar in 1951 as a petroleum engineer . He graduated from the Moscow Oil and Gas Institute (Gubkin Institute) in 1956, where he received his doctorate in 1961 and qualified as a professor in 1975 (Soviet doctorate). He worked for a long time in the Soviet oil and gas industry and from 1961 to 1974 at the Gubkin Institute. In 1985 he received a full professorship at the Gubkin Institute. He also directed the gas hydrate laboratory of the Institute for Oil and Gas Research of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. From 1991 to 1998 he was director of the Institute for Hydrocarbons and the Environment and from 1991 to 1993 chairman of the Moscow section of the SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers). From 1993 he was at Texas A&M University at their gas hydrate laboratory, which he headed from 1995 to 2010.
From 1965 to 1967 he was visiting professor at the Indian School of Mines in Dhanbad and in 1973 at the Bergakademie Freiberg .
Methane hydrate was discovered by Humphry Davy in 1810 and was long thought to be a curiosity that occasionally caused problems as it could clog natural gas pipelines (as was found in the 1940s). Makogon's discovery of methane hydrate in sediments below a Siberian natural gas field (published in 1965) therefore came as a surprise. As early as 1961, he described the stability of gas hydrate at low temperatures. Later, large quantities were found in the sediments of the continental shelves and methane hydrate became a possible source of energy. Makogon published information about the possible exploitation of gas hydrate deposits as early as 1966.
He has published several books on gas hydrate problems and holds 29 patents. Among other things, he developed techniques to loosen and remove gas hydrate plugs in natural gas pipelines.
He investigated the phase behavior of natural gas-water systems at low temperature and high pressure and gas hydrate formation in pore spaces.
He has been a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RANS), which he co-founded, since 1990, and of the National Academy of Ukraine since 2009. In 1989 he received the Soviet Gubkin State Prize. In 1997 he received the golden Kapitza medal. He is an honorary doctor of the Nikolayev Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences and in 2008 received a special award at the 6th International Conference on Gas Hydrates. In 2016 he received the Robert Earl McConnell Award from the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers (AIME). In 2002/03 he was an international Distinguished Lecturer at the PES.
He is a passionate chess player.
Fonts (selection)
He wrote around 270 scientific articles and 8 monographs (six of them on gas hydrates).
- Hydrates of Natural Gas, PennWell 1981
- Perspectives in the development of gas-hydrate deposits, 4th Int. Permafrost Conference 1982, pp. 299-304
- Hydrates of Hydrocarbon, PennWell 1997
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Derek Lowe, Das Chemiebuch, Librero 2017, p. 420
- ↑ AIME website on the price for Makogon 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Makogon, Yuri |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Makogon, Yuri Fedorovich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet petroleum engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ukraine |