Stavropol students are preparing for the final of the CASE-IN championship

Students of the North Caucasus Federal University have reached the finals of the IX International Engineering CASE-IN Championship in the field of Oil and Gas business. The project is included in the presidential platform "Russia – the land of opportunities".

Future engineers of the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes are solving cases on one of the priority topics for the global economy - the "Oil and gas business". Experts from industry companies and the North Caucasus Mining and Metallurgical Institute evaluated the students' ideas online and selected the best projects to be presented at the final stage of the championship.

The North Caucasus Federal University was represented by a team from the Institute of Earth Sciences. During the week, the participants had to solve a difficult task from the strategic partner of the competition, Tatneft, one of the largest Russian oil companies. The students had to propose a project to inject carbon dioxide into the oil-bearing reservoir, which is released into the atmosphere by thermal power plants. As the organizers explained, this technology will facilitate the extraction of high-viscosity oil from wells.

The result of the successful work was a well-deserved bronze. Grigory Lavrov, Ilya Dudnikov and Stanislav Ignatenko will represent the university in the final of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship.

"We have developed a project for recycling CO₂ by pumping it into the reservoir to increase the final oil recovery of the field. The uniqueness of our research lies in the fact that we have proposed not only a way to recycle carbon dioxide, but also the ability to do so without harm to the environment.", – says the captain of the team, Grigory Lavrov.

The final of the CASE-IN championship will be held in Moscow. The winners of the competition will receive valuable prizes, the opportunity to participate in the All-Russian industry summer forums, advantages in admission to graduate and postgraduate studies, and will also be able to complete internships in leading companies in the industry.

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