ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF THE WORKSHOP ON ABIOTIC HYDROCARBONS: Co-Chair - Academician Renat Muslimov, Professor of Geology of the Kazan Federal University; Advisor to the President of the Republic of on Development of Oil Fields (Kazan, ) Co-Chair - Professor Danis Nurgaliev, Deputy Rector of the Kazan Federal University, Professor of Geology (Kazan, Russia) Co-Chair – Academician Anatoliy Dmitrievsky, Professor of Geology, Director of the Institute of Oil and Gas of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia)

Scientific Program Committee: Craig M. Schiffries – Director, Deep Carbon Observatory; Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington (USA) Christopher Ballentine – Professor, University of Manchester (United Kingdom). David Cole – Professor, Ohio State University (USA) John M. Saul – Doctor of Geology (France) Jesse H. Ausubel – Director, Program for the Human Environment, Rockefeller University (New York City, USA) Fanis Valiev – General Director, "Neftekonsortsium" Oil Company (Russia) Rais Khisamov – Chief Geologist, TATNEFT Oil Company, Doctor of Geology (, Russia) Nakip Gatiyatullin – Head of Tatar Oil Exploration Management, TATNEFT Oil Company, Doctor of Geology (Kazan, Russia) Ravil Ibatullin – Director, Institute of Petroleum of TATNEFT Oil Company; Professor of Geology (Bugulma, Russia) Boris Valyev – Head of Laboratory of the Institute of Oil and Gas of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of Geology (Moscow, Russia) Irina Plotnikova – Head of the Department of Oil and Gas Geology, Kazan Federal University; Doctor of Geology (Kazan, Russia) Kazan Conference Committee: Vladimir Trofimov – Deputy General Director, Institute of Fuels Geology and Development of Fossil Fuels, Professor of Geology (Moscow, Russia) Vladimir Kutcherov – Professor, KTH Department of Energy Technology (Stockholm, Sweden) Bogdan Pisotskiy – Chief Researcher, Institute of Oil and Gas, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor of Geology (Moscow, Russia) Rimma Gottich – Chief Researcher, All-Russian Institute of Geological, Geophysical and Geochemical Systems; Professor of Geology (Moscow, Russia) Vladimir Morozov – Head of the Department of Mineralogy, Kazan Federal University; Professor of Geology (Kazan, Russia)

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