Nizhny Novgorod students became participants of the International Oil and Gas Youth Forum

The International Oil and Gas Youth Forum was held in the Republic of Tatarstan on the basis of Almetyevsk State Technological University Higher School of Petroleum. It brought together 240 students and young specialists from oil and gas companies, as well as university professors from 26 Russian regions, from the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Republic of Uzbekistan.

The forum organized 6 days of intensive training during trainings, round tables, workshops by experts of the fuel and energy complex, business games and lectures.

The key point of the educational program was the Hackathon for the development of Fuel and Energy Complex 2050, dedicated to the development of innovative technologies for the extraction and processing of natural resources, biotechnology and the digital transformation of the industry. The participants in the teams were engaged in designing and solving real-world cases of Russia's leading oil and gas companies. Special attention within the framework of the educational program was paid to the development of soft skills competencies (leadership competencies, effective communication, result orientation), as well as training in the principles of project management, the basics of flexible thinking and the theory of inventive problem solving.

Based on the results of the first expert assessment, 90 students and teachers were selected to participate in the 6th International Oil and Gas Youth Forum.  They included representatives of Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University.:

• Nikonorov Sergey Andreevich (technician of the 1st category);
• Polyakov Ivan Alekseevich (student);
• Pavelkina Diana Andreevna (engineer/postgraduate student)

In the semi-finals, the participants of the International Oil and Gas Youth Forum had to defend their design solutions. The contestants had to describe the goals and objectives of their project, specify the target audience, characterize the functionality of the existing prototype and outline the prospects for the implementation of the project.

The projects were defended by the members of the competition jury in parallel in four areas of the hackathon.:

• Global technological leadership in oil and gas production. Search for new solutions that increase the efficiency of field development (technological processes and equipment);
• Global technological leadership in oil and gas processing and petrochemistry. Search for new solutions that increase the efficiency of technological processes and equipment;
• Industrial biotechnologies, composite materials. Innovative solutions to increase the sustainability of existing business lines and the development of new ones;
• Digital technologies in the oil and gas sector.

The jury evaluated the presentations of design solutions according to five criteria: the conformity of the project idea to the task set within the framework of the direction, the originality and innovation of the design solution, the thoroughness of the technical solution, the effectiveness of the proposed design solution, the quality of the preparation of presentation materials and presentations. As a result, 20 teams were selected for the finals, five in each direction of the hackathon.

Representatives of the R.E. Alekseev NSTU successfully performed as part of the finalist teams of the FEC 2050 Development Hackathon.

According to the results of the Hackathon, the strongest students will be offered promising employment, and the most active teachers, in turn, will be able to complete paid internships at Tatneft.

The organizers of the International Oil and Gas Youth Forum are PJSC Tatneft and the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation. The hackathon was held under the auspices of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship of the presidential platform "Russia – the land of Opportunities".

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