10 teams are competing for the main prize of the Oil Industry IT Championship!

The qualifying stage, which presented the participants and experts of the oil industry IT championship with many promising ideas and extraordinary solutions in the field of drilling management, has been completed! The top 10 teams of specialists from oil companies in Russia and abroad have moved on to the next test, the hackathon, to develop their solution (MVP) and compete for the main prize – 1 million rubles.

38 teams participated in the qualifying stage, which included IT specialists, analysts, drilling specialists, and HR managers. Within 10 days, the teams developed mathematical models and a unified algorithm for analyzing the impact on the business and identifying factors affecting the continuity of the IT circuit, which will form the basis of the MVP IT business continuity management system.

The industry expert commission evaluated the decisions of the contestants according to five criteria (current technology, accessibility to implementation, cost–effectiveness, competent presentation and the level of answers to experts' questions) and identified the 10 strongest teams - they will try their hand at the hackathon.

The participants of the hackathon were:

1. Prometheus (Gazpromneft-CR)
2. NESTRO TECH (Zarubezhneft)
3. Carbon Python (VNIINEFT and Giprovostokneft national team)
4. Drill IT (team of Gazprom VNIIGAZ, Gazprom CPS, Gazprom Invest and NIIgazeconomika)
5. IT Works (a team of Gazprom Neft Shelf, Gazpromneft STC, RANEPA and Gazprom Neft-CR)
6. Digital Drilling (Tatneft)
7. Fortuna (Transneft Technologies)
8. Molchuny (Transneft Technologies)
9. BlackCode (Automatika-Service, 100-point Tutor and Gazprom Dobycha Krasnodar)
10. "It sounds solid" (St. Petersburg GUAP, "Berus").

The 48-hour hackathon identified the brightest and most promising MVP prototypes of an information system to ensure the smooth functioning of an IT system for drilling management processes – and the best of them will bring victory to its team and may become a new industry solution.

We wish the participants to show their best qualities on the way to victory!