Gazprom Neft, together with the Skolkovo Institute of Science and the Shpilman Research and Analytical Center, plans to build an engineering center to develop and commercialize technologies for the exploration and production of hard-to-recover hydrocarbons. The enterprise will be established on the basis of Skoltech Oil and Gas Laboratory and Research Center in Khanty-Mansiysk and will become the largest laboratory complex in Russia for the study of hard-to-recover oil.