Illia FYK
Head of the department, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Ukrainian Oil Academy, Laureate of the State Prizes of Ukraine in the scope of science and technology Illia Mikhailovich Fyk was born November 26, 1948 in Volyn, in the city of Kivertsy, in a family of workers.
Since school years, he dreamed of becoming a geologist, his main interest were studying of local lore, tourism. He participated in tourist competitions, where he received the first sports category in tourism.
After graduating from secondary school in Kivertsy in 1966, he entered the geological exploration department of the Ivano-Frankivsk branch of the Lviv Polytechnic Institute.
In 1971 he graduated with honors from the Ivano-Frankivsk Institute of Oil and Gas with a degree in Geophysical methods of prospecting and exploration of underground resources.
In the labour collective of the Ukrainian Research Institute of Natural Gases (Kharkov), he went from engineer to director of the institute.
Work lives:
1971-1984 – engineer, senior researcher at the Ukrainian Research Institute of Natural Gases – (UkrNDIgaz).
In the same period, he prepared and defended the candidate dissertation: Prediction of residual gas saturation of the formation: dis. Candidate of Engineering Science: I.M. Fyk – Ivano-Frankivsk, 1981. – P. 227.
1984-1993 – Head of Field Development Department – (UkrNDIgaz).
1993-1996 – Deputy Director for Geology and Field Development – (UkrNDIgaz).
1996—2000 — Director of Institute – (UkrNDIgaz).
2000-2008 – Deputy Director for Scientific Issues of Development of Oil and Gas Fields – (UkrNDIgaz).
since 2010 – Academician and Vice President of the Ukrainian Oil and Gas Academy, Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the scope of science and technology, Honored Worker of Ukrgazindustry. Professor of NTU “KhPI”, Head of the Department of Oil, Gas and Condensate Production, Karazin KhNU, Kharkiv.
Later he created and led the Institute of Gas Transport “Ukrtransgaz JSC”.
In 2010, he created and headed the Department of Oil, Gas and Condensate Production of NTU “Kharkov Polytechnic Institute”.
Illia Fyk is the leader and co-author of hundreds of applied projects for the development of gas and gas condensate fields in Ukraine, including fields with hard-to-recover reserves. New technologies of the cycling process and field development at a late stage were introduced at Novotroitske, Kotelevske, Timofiivske, Kulichikhinske, Shebelinske and other fields, which ensured additional gas production only in 2002-2010 more than 13 000 000 000 m3, condensate – more than 1 000 000 tons.
Illia Fyk is a member of the editorial boards of scientific publications of the oil and gas profile, co-author and leader of innovative projects of international scientific cooperation, advises students, dissertants in Ukraine, foreign scientific community.