Gubkin residents are silver medalists of the CASE-IN championship

The finale of the main season of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" has come to a logical conclusion. A team of students from the Department of (basic) Modeling of Physical and Technological processes of Field Development at Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas (NRU) "Point of Bifurcation" won the second place in the field of "Oil and Gas business".

The International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" is an international competition system for solving engineering cases among schoolchildren, students and young specialists of the Fuel and energy Complex and the Moscow Industrial Complex, which is part of the presidential platform of the ANO "Russia – the land of Opportunities".

The theme of the Oil and Gas Business in 2021 was the technologies of environmentally friendly and cost-effective oil recovery within the framework of the concept of sustainable development. Each team had to propose an optimal solution for using flue gases from a thermal power plant to increase oil recovery at a neighboring field.

846 people (more than 210 teams) took part in the qualifying stage in the field of "Oil and Gas business" at 17 sites across Russia. According to the results of the semi-final, 19 teams qualified for the final.

The final in the field of "Oil and Gas business" took place on June 2, 2021, according to its results, the team of Gubkin University "Point of Bifurcation" consisting of students Grigory Krivilev (team captain), Anton Aladyev, Roman Solonenko, Mikhail Yurtov took second place.

Gubkin residents proposed a project that includes carbon dioxide extraction, its injection into the reservoir, corrosion control methods and scaling options for the solution. The implementation of the project will reduce carbon emissions and increase oil recovery.

Gubkin University was also represented by the following teams in the final of the championship:

– Oil and Gas business direction – the Gaztrolers team consisting of students Stepan Zubkov (team captain), Vladislav Barakov, Kira Vovkodav, Konstantin Rezanov;

– Geological Exploration direction – the Traces of Bioturbation team consisting of students Prokhor Ufimtsev (team captain), Vyacheslav Zatsepin, Alexander Kovalenko, Vladislav Senatov;

– Project engineering direction – the Samsara Gear team consisting of students Ilya Shubin (team captain), Maxim Melikhov, Yulia Ptitsina, Grigory Rozhnyatovsky and the team "Three with PM not counting the captain" consisting of students Pavel Shupletsov (team captain), Umiyat Abdullayeva, Yulia Ershova, Olga Nesterova.

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