The winners of the oil Industry IT Championship will receive 1 million rubles.

October 1, 2021 The final will be held at the Digital Transformation Center "Tsifergauz" in St. Petersburg. IT-the Oil Industry Championship under the auspices of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", which is part of the Presidential Platform "Russia – the land of opportunities". 10 finalist teams will present IT-solutions in the field of drilling management and will compete for the main prize of 1 million rubles.  

38 teams representing 35 companies of the oil industry and 11 leading technical universities took part in the championship. To make it to the finals, the participants had to pass two qualifying stages sequentially.

The first stage was a case-solving competition: teams of IT specialists, analysts, and drilling specialists spent 10 days investigating threats to key drilling processes: power outages, fires, IT failures, cyber attacks, hacking, and others. As a result, mathematical models for assessing the criticality of risks were developed, and the top 10 teams representing 16 companies and 2 universities moved to the next level of the 48-hour hackathon.

During the hackathon, the participants created a minimally viable product (MVP): a prototype of an information system that should ensure the continuity and safety of drilling processes.

The leader of the pool of finalists at the end of the hackathon was the NESTRO TECH team. "Our team is cross-functional, we have tried to gather strong experts from different fields: we have a mining expert, a project economist and designer, a system architect, a frontend developer and IT-manager,  says the captain of the team  Vitaly Pogorelov,  We have analyzed the global and Russian experience, and we can confidently state that increasing drilling efficiency is an industry trend. Production of hydrocarbons is becoming more difficult and the usual drilling technologies no longer meet the needs of the business, and we see great potential in increasing the sustainability of the process from the outside. IT".

At the final stage of the championship in St. Petersburg, the finalist teams will present their finalized ideas to the experts. The best solution is planned to be implemented in Russian oil companies, and the authors of the winning development will receive an award in the amount of 1 million rubles.

The finalists include both experienced industry professionals and newcomers. Thus, the members of the Carbon Python team, which ranks fifth in the ranking of finalists, work in different cities and time zones. Dmitry Shcherbakov, the captain of the team, already has experience in developing a module for risk assessment of information systems.: "I have devoted more than 10 years of my professional career to drilling. I believe that difficult working conditions and production risks force companies to constantly improve the drilling management system in order to automate it as much as possible, ensure the safety of specialists and the efficiency of work. We tried to reflect all these nuances in our decision."

The championship attracted the participants of the BlackCode team (seventh place in the ranking) with the opportunity to gain new skills both in the field of information technology and in the oil and gas industry.

"The team consists of field developers, programmers, drillers and versatile specialists who perform several roles at once., – says the captain of the team Denis Ryabko. – We decided to go beyond our professions and form a team to solve such a non-trivial task. We are united by our love of chess and intellectual board games, and everyone regularly takes courses to gain additional knowledge, sometimes even non-core ones. I think the combination of these factors will help us achieve our goals."

The aim of the championship was not only to accumulate the strongest IT solutions to ensure the safety of drilling processes, but also to form an industry competence center that performs a collegial examination of these solutions, as well as to discuss the current agenda.:  the role of IT in the oil industry.

In this regard, the program of the championship will be complemented by a discussion of the digital transformation of the fuel and energy complex in the format of a dialogue on equal terms. The guests of the meeting will be Pavel Sorokin, Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, winner of the Leaders of Russia Management Competition, Michael Collins, CEO of Salym Petroleum Development NV, and BI Growth Director.Zone Rustem Khayretdinov. Together with the participants, experts will discuss the industry's IT needs, risks and factors of business sustainability, and optimal industry solutions.

The championship will end with a solemn awarding ceremony for the winners and prize-winners. All finalists will receive an invitation to register on the Professionals 4.0 platform, where they will be able to join national project teams and participate in solving real-world problems in the oil and gas sector and other industries.

The organizers of the IT Championship of the oil industry are Energotechnohab Petersburg, the operator of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" with the support of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation and Gazprom Neft.