The IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) also known as French Institute of Petroleum (in

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: ''Institut Français du Pétrole, IFP'') is a public research organisation in

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founded in 1944 as Institute of Oil, Fuels and Lubricants (''Institut du pétrole, des carburants et des lubrifiants''). The Institute is based at

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near

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, and has sites near

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and at Pau. , it had 1729 employees, a budget of 253 million euros, and was responsible for a post-graduate training centre,

IFP School The IFP School (French: ''ENSPM - École Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs'') is a graduate engineering school located in Rueil-Malmaison, France. Founded in 1954, IFP School is part of the IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN), a French ...

(also known as the ''ENSPM - École Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs''), and an extensive industrial training programme, IFP Training. IFPEN has designed several methods to assess the oil potential of a sedimentary rock, amongst others, the Rock-Eval Pyrolysis technique using a standardized

pyrolysis The pyrolysis (or devolatilization) process is the thermal decomposition of materials at elevated temperatures, often in an inert atmosphere. It involves a change of chemical composition. The word is coined from the Greek-derived elements ''py ...

apparatus. This technique is used worldwide amongst petroleum companies to compare their results in the same way.

Noted researchers

Yves Chauvin Yves Chauvin (; 10 October 1930 – 27 January 2015) was a French chemist and Nobel Prize laureate. He was honorary research director at the ''Institut français du pétrole'' and a member of the French Academy of Science. He was known for his work ...

, co-laureate of the 2005

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References

External links

Official site
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