Students of NEFU Mirninsky Polytechnic Institute made it to the finals of the CASE-IN championship

The Inquisitores team from the Mirninsky Polytechnic Institute of Northeastern Federal University has qualified for the final of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship, which will be held in Moscow from May 31 to June 2. Students of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) will compete in solving engineering cases in the field of "Oil and gas business".

This year, the tasks of the semi-finals had a common theme of "Sustainable development" for all areas. The result of the case study was the proposal of a method to increase the oil recovery coefficient while taking a set of measures to reduce the carbon footprint of PJSC Tatneft.

According to the captain of the team, Stepan Zainulin, a 3rd-year student of the Department of Oil and Gas Engineering at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology of NEFU, Inquisitores is participating in the championship for the second time.

"Having gained valuable experience last year, we worked as much as possible on the shortcomings and strengthened the qualities of the team by taking courses in graphic design, learning how to present information correctly., – said the captain. – Soft skills, which are non–specialized end-to-end skills responsible for successful performance and high productivity, have also become one of the main skills that led to victory. The guys and I have strengthened the technological justification of our projects using Roxar simulators and research laboratories. All this is available in our department."

The topic of ecology is extremely acute for the entire oil and gas industry, Stepan Zainulin emphasized.

"Our team considers the development of eco-oriented projects to be a promising vector. But the big problem in this whole story is the huge capital costs involved in implementing such solutions. Most of all, we have been working on finding a solution that will be effective for increasing KIN, environmentally friendly and economically feasible.", – the student added.

As Kirill Tomsky, associate professor of the Basic Department of Oil and Gas Engineering at NEFU Polytechnic Institute in Mirny, noted, the high results of the students were largely made possible by the remarkable teaching and professorial staff, high-tech equipment, computer classroom software and the educational and scientific laboratories of the BC "Oil and Gas Business".

"The team is very young and consists of 2-3 year students, while the competing finalist teams consist mainly of undergraduates and graduate students., – he noted. – The students showed great independence and determination in solving the cases. Of course, the laboratory base where they are trained has had a positive impact on the result."

Reference. The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship is a system of competitions for solving engineering cases for schoolchildren, students and young specialists in the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes, the nuclear industry and related industries.

At the final competition of the winners of the qualifying and semi-final stages of the championship with the participation of more than 500 students and 100 young specialists from the Russian Federation, the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Republic of Belarus, the team from the NEFU Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology will be represented by students Stepan Zainulin, Valeria Semenova, Sakhayana Nikolaeva and Roman Abramov.

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