The annual qualifying round of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship was held at St. Petersburg State University

On March 28, the annual qualifying round of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship (the Oil and Gas Business League) was held at St. Petersburg State University. Last year, St. Petersburg State University won the second place in the "Energy of Education" competition for organizing a Qualifying round among all universities participating in the League.

The championship is held with the support of leading companies of the Fuel and energy Complex and MSK, including JSC SO UES, LLC Transneftenergo, PJSC NK Rosneft, LLC SIBUR, PJSC FGC UES, JSC SUEK, JSC MHC EuroChem, JSC Rosgeologiya, LLCMycromine Rus, LLC VGK, JSC Siberian Anthracite, LLC EvrazHolding, LLC IBM SI Montan, PJSC RusHydro, PJSC NLMK, United Company RUSAL, Sverdlovsk Branch of PJSC T Plus, Saratov Branch of PJSCT Plus, Prosoft-Systems LLC, OMK Vyksa Metallurgical Plant.

The participants of the Qualifying Round were welcomed by the head of the Reliable Change Foundation, the main operator of youth projects of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, Korolev Artem. Outlining the objectives of the Championship and the conditions for its holding, he presented the growing unity of the leading engineering and technical universities of the Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia participating in the International Engineering Case-In Championship. The Vice Rector for Strategic Development delivered a welcoming speech on behalf of the Rector of St. Petersburg State University of Economics Toivonen Nikolay. The selection round was supported by two Committees of the Government of St. Petersburg: the Committee on Energy and Engineering and the Committee on Science and Higher Education. The Director of the Center for Energy Conservation of the St. Petersburg City Administration spoke on behalf of the Committee on Energy and Engineering Sokolova Tatiana. The Committee on Science and Higher Education welcomed the participants Vasilyuk Victoria, Head of the Department of Professional Education Development. Significant information and expert support was provided Galina Nasyrova, Head of the Department of Science Policy and Innovation in Science and Education, who also attended the opening ceremony.

This year, the heads and leading specialists of Gazprom Neft participated in the work of the expert jury: Izmailov Andrey, Head of the Energy Department of the Gazprom Neft Gas and Energy Directorate, Kapaev Sergey, Head of the Department of Energy Efficiency and Energy Conservation of Gazprom Neft PJSC, and Kiselyov Pavel, Head of the Economic Analysis Department of the NTC Gazprom Neft projects. Such a high level of the expert jury determined the high "degree" of responsibility of the participants when presenting the results of the case solution.

The expert community of St. Petersburg State University of Economics was represented by Kind-hearted Irina, head of the Department of the Graduate Institute of St. Petersburg State University, Natalia Trifonova, Head of the Department of International Management, By Pavel Metelev, Deputy Director of the Higher School of Economics for International Relations, Borovskaya Irina, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business, and By Natalia Sarakhanova, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business.

8 teams of undergraduates representing the programs "International Business", "International Economics", "Business Assessment", "Energy Economics and Sustainable Development", "Mathematical and Computer Modeling in Economics and Management", "Applied Informatics in Economics and Management", "Production Management in industries and complexes" presented their solutions to the Russian Arctic Oil case. Within the framework of this case, undergraduates of the University of Economics were asked not only to identify key performance indicators of the project, but also to assess hydrocarbon reserves, propose an effective system for the development and technology of oil and gas production, justify the drilling scheme of the field, perform calculations of production profiles for all selected development sites with justification of starting production rates, rate of decline, rate of selection and system maintaining pressure. This year, most of the teams were formed by representatives of different master's degree programs, which provided the necessary synergy effect and predetermined a high level of problem solving.

All eight teams coped with the task, prompting a fair collective assessment by the expert jury of the demonstrated growing level of technological and engineering performance of the case tasks by graduate students in economics. The winners of the Qualifying round, who received a ticket to the finals (Moscow), were the members of the Fortuna team – Mikryukov Maxim, Mezhekova Karina, Bobrov Vitaly and Gorodetsky Ivan (the only undergraduate economics student who worked at the same level as undergraduates). The winners were awarded a diploma from the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation. The second prize-winner of the Qualifying round was the IT team in oil, consisting of Ostanina Maria, Rostovsky Dmitry, Chernyaev Alexander and Anastasia Sholokhova. The boys were awarded a diploma from the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs. The Heart of the North team won the third prize. Kristina Vardanyan, Konstantin Kalistratov, Alina Bychkova (all were awarded the diploma of the Reliable Shift Foundation). The list of developers of highly professional case solutions presented by the Attack Line teams was not limited to prizes only (Averyanov Alexander, Klementyeva Marina, Konareva Anna), 4G (Akmaral Zhumabayeva, Karina Krasnova, Elizaveta Reshetnikova, Ainur Yagudin), International relations (Konyaeva Anastasia, Diesperov German, Racheeva Evgeniya), Unecon light (Nikolaeva Arina, Likhachev Dmitry, Chiryatyeva Natalia) and Two Ivan 's (Korostelev Ivan, Kovalev Ivan).

An undoubted factor in the growth of the qualification level of the participants in the Qualifying Round at St. Petersburg State University was the well-coordinated, highly professional and time-consuming consulting activities of the team supervisors: Natalia Sarakhanova, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business (general management of the consulting team), Anna Kovaleva, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business, Anastasia Melnikova, ass. of the Department of International Business, and Mikhail Kanavtsev, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business. In both the 2017 and 2018 seasons, participating undergraduates receive invaluable support and meaningful advice from an associate professor at Gazprom's specialized department Tyutikov Yuri Pavlovich.

The organizers of the Championship express their gratitude to the Director of the Institute of Magistracy Tumarova Tatiana, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Finance Irina Evstafieva, heads of master's degree programs – To Grigory Fridman, Sofia's Record, Natalia Puzynya, Nadezhda Doroshenko, Tatiana Makarchuk, Yulia Bichun - for the support of the participants of the Qualifying round of the CASE-IN Championship at St. Petersburg State University, for forming a respectful and reverent attitude towards this event, for a high level of motivation to solve a complex, non-trivial engineering problem. Special thanks to the "old-timers" of the CAC-IN Championship and the Russian Energy Week: To Konstantin Kalistratov, Natalia Chiryatyeva, Alexander Tavdishvili and Kristina Vardanyan, whose further work in the energy sector can be a real corporate gain.

The Vice Rector for Academic and Methodological Work acted as a representative of the Organizing Committee of the Championship in 2018. Veronika Shubaeva, responsible for holding the CAC-IN Championship at St. Petersburg State University - Head. Department of International Business Trifonova Natalia.

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