This unit is the oldest with about the 100-year experience in the training of highly qualified engineers in the field of mineral and raw materials industry. Nowadays Tomsk Polytechnic University strives to develop an efficient research and education center, which will be able to conduct breakthrough research projects and provide gifted students and academic staff with all necessary conditions for creative work and study. Along with this activity, the School will train highly qualified academic staff, who can equally efficient work at both research and educational institutions and in petroleum and geology industries, and the ecological sphere. It collaborates with recognized national and international companies in petroleum and petroleum refining industries, like PJSC Gazprom, PJSC Rosneft, PJSC Transneft, PJSC Alrosa, PJSC SIBUR, Schlumberger, and others. In addition, within the framework of the state strategy in the development of the Arctic region, the School actively participates in the study of the underwater permafrost degradation, the emission of methane in the atmosphere in the areas of the Eastern Arctic.