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Advanced Russian Technology
Helps to Discover Underground Water Reserves in Mauritania |
 
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Geoinformation Research Centrå SA and scientific
group led by the academician V.Gokh is pleased to
announce that a group of its experts now on a mission
to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania discovered underground
reservoirs of fresh water in the area of the town
of Atar yesterday.
The water
reserves were detected using the methods of
geohydrodiagnosis and structure-metric analysis - unique
technologies developed by a team of Russian scientists
and engineers over the past two decades. The
method consists in obtaining satellite photographs of a
specific area on the surface of the Earth, made in a
certain frequency spectrum. The photographs are then
analyzed with special computer software and mathematical
algorithms. A more detailed description of the
technology in question can be found at www.research-centre.org.
 Geoinformation Research Centre
(Geneva, Switzerland) is the operator of the technology
and is also the central management company of all the
exploration and production enterprises set up by the
developers of the method. In Russia, its research and
development efforts are concentrated at the Scientific
Research Centre of Geoinformation Analysis of the Earth
(Moscow) and the Russian representative office of the
Institute of Geoinformational Analysis of the Earth,
opened in Moscow in 1999.
 The
technology helps to accurately discover and analyze
virtually any type of mineral deposits, including
hydrocarbons, gold, diamonds, and water. In the past
several years alone, the technology was successfully
tested in various regions of the world - such as Africa,
the Middle East, the Far East, North America, Russia -
and permitted to predict and locate commercial deposits
of hydrocarbons (including some 70 million tons of oil),
gold and diamonds. The Center now runs more than ten
joint ventures in the mining sector around the
world.
 In
Mauritania the technology is used in the interests of a
consortium, now being set up, to operate a concession
for crude oil and gas production over an area
encompassing more than one third of the country's
territory. The search for underground fresh water
reserves was carried out at the request of the
Mauritanian government as part of the preparatory work
for the consortium and is of immense social significance
for this arid country.
The
advanced Russian know-how has made it possible to locate
the water reserves in less than one month, whereas
traditional methods had not yielded any positive results
for decades.
 With
regards, Valery Toutykhin Member of the Board
of
Directors
academician V.Gokh
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