A scientific and practical conference "Science and Education: A Bright Path to the Future" was recently held at the Nebitgazylmytaslama Institute of the State Concern “Turkmennebit”, organized jointly with the Balkanabat Oil Secondary Vocational School.

The conference was attended by the chief researcher of the institute, candidate of chemical sciences Oraz Orazov, director of the Balkanabat Oil Secondary Vocational School, acting director of the Nebitgazylmytaslama Institute Orazmammet Nurmammedov, leading researcher of the institute, candidate of geological and mineralogical sciences Aytmammet Akmammedov, deputy director for research, candidate of technical sciences Emir Allanurov and others.

After the plenary session, the forum continued its work in sections in the recently reconstructed building of the institute, as well as in the oil secondary vocational school. At the section held at the institute under the title "Geology, drilling, development and exploitation of hydrocarbon deposits", reports were heard on promising areas for increasing oil and gas reserves in southwestern Turkmenistan, the specifics of oil and gas fields, the operational characteristics of productive wells drilled in the fields, the scale of application of various methods of oil production, as well as problems of safe work on the extraction, processing and pumping of oil and gas at production facilities. During the work of the section of the scientific and practical conference entitled "Digital technologies, automation, energy, education", the interest of the conference participants was aroused by the prepared reports on the features of the formation of the composition of oil and gas fields and groundwater, the importance of digital systems in the automation of the oil and gas industry, the importance of using semiconductor high-speed and non-volatile memory devices, advanced technologies based on quantum systems in the industry, the use of holographic technologies in educational work, and a pedagogical approach to preserving natural beauty.