Gazprom's Corporate League summed up the results

More than 100 young employees of Gazprom's subsidiaries and managed divisions took part in the Situational Analysis Problem Solving Championship under the auspices of the CASE-IN International Engineering Championship.

As part of the competition, the students had to develop a case study on the topic "Reengineering of Gazprom's main production processes using additive manufacturing technologies." The final competitions were held on December 5-7 at Gazprom VNIIGAZ, where 20 teams presented their projects to independent experts. 

The defense took place in two stages. In the final stage, the 6 strongest teams competed for the championship cup: First Energy, Three-Dimensional Peaks, Gazprom Future, Avangard, Eureka and Siberia Center.

The Gazprom Future team won in a hard-fought battle. The participants presented the most optimal, original and innovative solution of the case to the expert commission. The winning team consisted of Alexander Klochkov (Gazprom Transgaz St. Petersburg, LLC), Ruslan Kurmanaliev (Gazprom Dobycha Astrakhan, LLC), Anton Skrebtsov (Gazprom Transgaz Moscow, LLC), Alexey Kalamkarov (Gazprom Transgaz Moscow, LLC), Anton Zaitsev (Gazprom Transgaz, LLC Ukhta") and team captain Kirill Zagidullin (Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg LLC).

"Participation in the championship is an excellent practice, which gives a lot of experience in various areas: from technical to economic. In practice, you need to apply different knowledge and skills - SWOT analysis, sensitivity analysis, and try different ways to solve a non-trivial problem. All this can be learned only at the Championship. Our team's victory was based on 3 key points - goal setting, unity of the whole team and rationalism. And all this combined has led us to the success we have achieved," said Kirill Zagidullin, captain of the Gazprom Future team.

The silver medal was won by the First Energy team: team captain Vladislav Sedov (Gazprom Transgaz Nizhny Novgorod LLC), Vladimir Yagantsev (Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg LLC), Arina Mullina (Gazprom Inform Saratov Branch), Sabina Kamova (Central Paramilitary Unit of Gazprom Gas Security LLC), Dmitry Kulgin (Gazprom UGS LLC), Alexander Khavronin (ITC of Gazprom Transgaz Belarus).

"Our decision to recycle pet plastic into insulating coatings for main pipelines is very innovative. It has obvious advantages in terms of social and environmental impact. The opposing teams demonstrated a very high level, and it seemed to me personally that we lacked a little depth of study and research to put our solution into production," commented Vladislav Sedov, captain of the First Energy team.

The bronze medal went to the Eureka team: Gleb Pavlov (Gazprom Transgaz Saint Petersburg LLC), Alexander Kostenko (Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg LLC), Olga Filatova (Gazprom Dobycha Astrakhan LLC), Evgeny Epifanov (Gazprom Transgaz Moscow LLC), team captain Alexander Mazin (Gazprom Dobycha Astrakhan LLCGazprom Transgaz Volgograd), Timur Rakhimov (Gazprom Transgaz Kazan LLC).

"Our solution was one of the most practically applicable. The team carried out a lot of work on the analysis of the Russian market of materials and their fields of application, which was appreciated by a respected jury. The task was to find the application of 3D printing in the production activities of the enterprise. Participation in the championship gave us the opportunity to meet wonderful, interesting and intelligent people. There are a lot of positive emotions from the process of working on the solution to the result," said Alexander Mazin, captain of the Eureka team.

An eventful program awaited the participants. In addition to the competitive part, the contestants took part in educational lectures: "Research and application of additive technologies" and "Modern additive manufacturing: from idea to implementation". The teams also talked with leading scientists from Gazprom VNIIGAZ LLC and industry experts. 

"I would like to express my gratitude to the organizers of this championship. Any advanced technology is like magic. Within the framework of this case, you have given us this magic to experience for ourselves. Thank you so much for that! Because Gazprom is a fundamental, traditional company that focuses on reliability and traditional solutions to problems. And here all the employees were able to dream a little!", the leader of the Gazprom Future team summed up the participation in the competition.