AiF Tyumen: how "CASE-IN" helps future engineers

To gain experience from school or college, which will be counted when applying for a job and will become a significant line in the resume. This is the foundation for the future of young engineers. International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" is a project of the Russia – the Land of Opportunities platform. AiF-Tyumen found out how the life of the champions of previous years turned out. 

Real challenges and prospects 

The CASE-IN Championship has been held since 2013. Since 2019, the project has been included in the presidential the Russia – the Land of Opportunities platform, created on the initiative of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Students of Tyumen Industrial University have been participating in the regional capital for five years. According to rector of TIU Veronika Efremova the advantage of the CASE-IN championship and Tyumen Industrial University is the possibility of immersion in the production process even at the training stage.

"Good specialists should be ready to work in a team and solve difficult production tasks almost from the first days of employment. In addition to hard skills, they must have soft skills, or universal personal competencies, which we strive to develop within the framework of educational and educational processes. That's probably why our students become prize winners every year.", – Veronika Yefremova thinks. 

 "Students of Tyumen Industrial University joined the championship in 2016 and immediately declared themselves, winning the championship title in their core field – oil and gas business. Since then, almost every year TIU "delivers" its student teams to the podium of the CASE-IN. In 2018, the energy guys won bronze medals, in 2019, a set of silver awards in the oil and gas industry went to Tyumen, and in 2020, Tyumen repeated their success and once again became champions of the oil and gas industry.", " He's telling me Artem Korolev, founder and co-chairman of the CASE-IN Championship. 

The schoolchildren of the region are not far behind: last year, teams from Tobolsk and Golyshmanovo won the Engineering Solutions Competition, and 17 teams from the Tyumen Region are participating in the School League in the new season. By the way, TIU provides from 5 to 10 additional USE points for the winners and champions of the School CASE-IN League, and accepts the winners of the Student League to the Master's program without entrance tests. 

A unique experience 

Vyacheslav Kadulin, the champion of the Student League 2020 He admits that the engineering case in the oil and gas business, which he had to solve at the championship with the True sight team, was not easy. It was formed by PJSC NOVATEK and was called "Diversification: LNG vs GAS CHEMISTRY". The students had to offer the best option for the development of a hard-to-reach gas condensate field, taking into account a comprehensive review of the issues of extraction, primary treatment, transportation and processing of natural gas and gas condensate. In addition, it was proposed to assess the possible environmental consequences of the project and propose measures to minimize environmental impacts. 

The teams had to analyze 30 gas condensate fields PJSC NOVATEK and identify a priority project for the company. In addition, the case involved considering the diversification of the oil and gas business through the introduction of gas chemistry facilities into the work chain. 

"We were able to justify the choice of the field, comprehensively and comprehensively consider four options for processing gas and gas condensate, conduct a feasibility study of optimal solutions from the well to the consumer, as well as take into account the key risks of the project and propose measures to minimize the negative impact on the environment. A well-designed presentation to demonstrate the developments played an important role", – Vyacheslav tells us. 

According to Mikhail Stukan, Head of the research Department of the Moscow Scientific and Technical Center of the Schlumberger Company"the decision of the True sight team turned out to be the most comprehensive and complete. The guys tried to work out the whole way in great detail – from the well to the consumer. This is the determining factor in solving the presented case." 

From scratch to victory 

One more 2016 Student League Champion Dmitry Ostapchuk Currently he works at the West Siberian Scientific Research Institute of Geology and Geophysics (ZapSibNIIGG) He is an assistant professor at the Department of Development and Operation of Oil and Gas Fields at Tyumen Industrial University. He was one of the first participants of the CASE-IN championship in TIU. 

"During my participation in the championship, I was in my first year of graduate school and had already got a job at a design institute. When it became known that the Tyumen Industrial University would host the qualifying stage of the championship, my supervisor Ivan Sintsov invited me and my other students to create a team and show up. At that time, each of us was already engaged in scientific activities, had publications in scientific journals, and had experience speaking at national and international student conferences. The organizers of the championship stated that solving the case would allow us to immerse ourselves in our specialty as much as possible, so we were very encouraged to take part."- the young man recalls . 

Dmitry and his colleagues took part in the championship in the field of "Oil and gas business". As part of the case study, they needed to propose technological solutions for the efficient development of an existing oil field in the Republic of Tatarstan. Their project was fundamentally different from others in that in order to substantiate the effectiveness of the proposed solutions, a digital model of the field was created in a short time, which reproduced the processes occurring in the subsurface during oil production. By the way, now the modeling method is one of the main ones in predicting various indicators of the development of hydrocarbon deposits. But in 2016, its use by the student team made a huge impression on the members of the expert commission. 

Today, all members of the first winning team work in their specialty and solve the same tasks as in the case, designing the development of oil and gas fields. 

Schoolchildren can also participate in the CASE-IN. The eighth grader Alena Kargaleva In 2020, she became the bronze champion of the School League. Together with her team, she decided to work on the case of the oil industry. The guys suggested their own version of the tank for safer storage of black gold. 

"This problem is very urgent today, accidents and oil spills are becoming more common, and the consequences of such emergencies are detrimental to the environment", – says the girl. 

Their team suggested making tanks out of polyester, rather than plastic or iron alloy, as they are now. According to Alena, their version is much stronger and less vulnerable to sunlight. 

After the eleventh grade, the schoolgirl plans to enroll in Tyumen Industrial University, so she has no doubt that the experience of participating in the CASE-IN will be useful to her, because the topic of oil and gas is especially close and interesting to her. And participation in the championship provided an opportunity to practice in this field, improve skills in programming and teamwork. 

Continued in material from AIF Tyumen