The qualifying stage of the international engineering Case-In championship started on Tuesday, March 1, at FEFU. Future specialists in mining, oil and gas, and electric power engineering worked in small groups to develop solutions to the problems and presented the results today. At the end of May, the best students will go to the finals in Moscow, where they will compete with students and graduate students from universities in Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia.

There are five leagues in total in the competition — electric power industry, oil and gas business, mining, geological exploration and metallurgy. In FEFU, the guys compete only in the first three areas. Our university has become one of the 37 universities in Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia that host the championship.

The winners of the final will be rewarded with internships and internships in leading industry companies, participation in the summer educational programs "Mining School" (mining and geological exploration) and "Energy of Youth" (electric power industry). It should be noted that the national partners of the championship are 5 federal ministries — energy, natural resources and ecology, education and science, labor and social protection, industry and trade of the Russian Federation, as well as Rosmolodezh and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects. And among the companies that support the project are SUEK JSC, SO UES JSC, EvrazHolding LLC, Rosgeologiya JSC, Yuzhuralzoloto JSC, Tatneft PJSC, Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd. oil and gas company and others.

"The tasks set in our case are to find the most relevant ways to develop Tatneft's assets in the Volga region, Eastern Siberia and on the Arctic shelf," says a graduate student in Oil and Gas Engineering Ilya Kolotovkin. — Oil is cheap now, but it's temporary. Therefore, even expensive assets, such as the Arctic shelf, should be developed. This will serve as an additional impetus for the development of related technologies. For example, the Americans developed the Apollo program — there was no practical benefit from it, and they still use the technologies that were involved in the preparation of the program. The Arctic shelf development program is not inferior in complexity, but it also provides practical benefits. Tatneft's main and most profitable asset is Eastern Siberia. There is a lot of oil there, it is of high quality. The Volga region has been in operation since the 1980s, 80% of its resource has been depleted, and there are rich reserves of hard-to-recover oil. We will need to shut down the wells that are currently in operation and slowly develop these reserves. It is economically feasible. But it is not so profitable to open new fields at current oil prices."

"We have been developing a strategy to improve energy efficiency in the regions, and technologies that will increase it," says Roman Novikov, a master's student specializing in Oil and Gas Engineering. — I was responsible for the Arctic, which is a developing region, where everything is just beginning to be built, and exploration is underway at various fields. And we are offering measures for the transportation of hydrocarbons that will improve the energy supply in the region."

"We have come to solving the problems of the case — and they are similar for all participants — not only in terms of energy efficiency, but also in terms of energy efficiency of the oil reservoir itself," says master's student Valery Sokolov. — We have implemented three methods for each region and one comprehensive, general one. This includes, in particular, the introduction of refrigerating machines for gas turbine installations. This is quite realistic — our projects are basically aimed at making short-term profits."