Zarubezhneft's young specialists triumphantly completed the CASE-IN championship

The young specialists of the Russian oil and gas company Zarubezhneft won the final of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN". Two teams of the company, ZN–Energy and the Nestro Team, successfully defended their projects and took first and second places, respectively, in the League of Young Professionals.

Zarubezhneft employees chose the technological and science-intensive topics "Wind diesel complex for isolated and hard-to-reach regions of the Russian Federation" and "Operational Monitoring Center as a tool for sustainable development in the post-crisis period." The participants also completed an additional task, justifying the choice of solutions in their projects according to the criteria of efficiency and safety. Among them are risk minimization, energy efficiency, improving the safety of production processes and competitiveness, import substitution and digital transformation.

"Technological leadership and talent management are Zarubezhneft's strategic focuses, and therefore we pay special attention not only to the introduction of modern technologies in production, but also to the development of the potential of our specialists., – Sergey Kudryashov, General Director of Zarubezhneft, comments. – The results of the CASE-IN International Engineering Championship once again demonstrated the high level of training, dedication and versatile thinking of our employees. We will continue to develop these qualities in them, helping them achieve the best performance in their work and maintain their competitiveness among industry professionals."

Zarubezhneft's specialists have been participating in the competition since 2017. For the first time, the company's employees reached the final stage and won prizes. In the final of the competition, the projects were defended by eighteen teams from all over Russia, including representatives of the country's largest energy companies. The defense took place in a strictly allotted time – six minutes for defense and five minutes for answering questions.

Reference. Zarubezhneft JSC — a Russian oil and gas company of strategic importance with a rich history and a unique, more than 50-year experience in foreign economic activity. For almost 40 years, the company has been successfully developing the continental shelf of South Vietnam as part of the Vietsovpetro joint venture. Other projects include the development of fields in the Nenets Autonomous District within the framework of the RUSVIETPETRO joint Venture and the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) for the Kharyaginsky field, the use of advanced technologies for the extraction of high-viscosity grades of oil in Cuba, increased oil recovery in mature fields in Uzbekistan, as well as the implementation of projects offshore Egypt and Indonesia. In addition, the company operates in the Oil Refining and Sales segment in the Republika Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina), has its own design institutes for underground and above-ground development of oil and gas fields, as well as service companies.

The CASE-IN International Engineering Championship is an international competition system for solving engineering cases among young specialists from companies and organizations in the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes, the nuclear industry and related industries. The championship is included in the platform of ANO "Russia – the land of opportunities", the supervisory board of which is headed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as in the TOP 15 world Olympiads according to the rating agency RAEX (RAEX-Analytics).

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