The Irkutsk Oil Company team is a participant in the REN Cup of the CASE-IN championship

A team of young specialists from Irkutsk Oil Company will take part in the REN Cup of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN".

The event will be held on October 14 as part of the Youth Day of the Russian Energy Week (REN). The participants of the competition are young specialists under 35 years of age from companies, universities and scientific associations of fuel and energy and mineral resources complexes (fuel and energy complex, MSC), nuclear industry and related industries. Irkutsk Oil Company will be represented by team captain Sergey Melnikov, Ivan Kalapov, Igor Bersenev, Alexander Maleev.

The topic of the case in 2022 was import substitution and cooperation to ensure the sustainable operation and development of fuel and energy complex and MSC facilities. The teams will have to develop and propose measures for the implementation of import substitution of power equipment, automated control systems and software, the implementation of which will eliminate the risk of sudden decommissioning of fuel and energy complex and MSC facilities and will ensure sustainable operation and development in the long term.

According to the results of the defense of the prepared solutions of the case in the format, the teams that took the first 3 places are awarded. The team with the maximum number of points becomes the winner of the REN Cup of the League of Young Specialists of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN". The winners will receive valuable prizes and gifts.

The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship is an international competition system for solving engineering cases for schoolchildren, students and young specialists in the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes, the nuclear industry and related industries. The project is part of the Russia – Land of Opportunity platform and is being implemented in accordance with the Action Plan aimed at popularizing the working and engineering professions, approved by the decree of the Government of the Russian Federation. Since 2018, the Championship has been implemented using a grant from the President of the Russian Federation for the development of civil society provided by the Presidential Grants Fund. In 2019, the Championship entered the TOP 15 Olympiads in the world according to the rating agency RAEX (RAEX Analytics).

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