Gazprom Neft awards winners of the Oil Industry IT Championship

At the Russian Energy Week in Moscow, the best students and young industry specialists were selected in the finals of the IT championship of the oil industry. The winners received awards from Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak and grants from Gazprom Neft.

The Oil Industry IT Championship is a team competition to promote digital skills. It was attended by 600 specialists from Russia and the CIS countries – company employees, students and freelancers.

The competition included several stages: problem solving, hackathons, and the development of a business case on the use of artificial intelligence for industrial automation. The total prize fund was 1.5 million rubles.

The ideas of the participants of the championship will be examined in the leading engineering centers of fuel and energy companies with the prospect of implementation in business processes. Developers will also be able to develop their projects into full-fledged startups by applying for participation in acceleration programs.

Alexander Novak, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation: "The energy industry is at the stage of a large-scale digital transformation, and young specialists with their breakthrough ideas play a key role in this process. The training and development of a new generation of professionals is an essential part of the implementation of Russia's Energy Strategy until 2050. As part of this strategy, we are creating a digital twin of the fuel and energy complex, and to develop and work with such complex technologies, we need gifted IT specialists who deeply understand the specifics of the industry."

Alexander Dyukov, Chairman of the Gazprom Neft Management Board: "By implementing projects such as the IT Championship, we give talented specialists the opportunity to show themselves, unlock their potential and learn about the applied challenges facing our industry. This competition is one of the tools for the formation of the personnel reserve of the company. So, some of the finalists of the IT championship of previous years are already successfully working at Gazprom Neft, and also developing their ideas into full-fledged projects in our accelerators for startups."

Reference. The Oil Industry IT Championship has been held since 2021 with the support of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, Gazprom Neft and the organizing committee of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship. During the five years of the competition, representatives of more than 100 companies and 78 universities from Russia and the CIS countries took part in it.

A source: Gazprom Neft