Far Eastern gas companies became winners of the qualifying stage of the CASE-IN championship

On April 4, the qualifying stage was held at the site of the Northeastern Federal University named after M.K. Ammosov in Yakutsk. engineering competition "CASE-IN". Young specialists of the fuel and energy complex have developed and presented their own projects in the field of innovation and information technology to the jury. The winners of the stage in the League of Young Specialists were the Gazprom Gas Distribution Far East team "GazBand-Vostok".

The GazBand-Vostok team includes four young specialists from Gazprom Gas Distribution Far East: Vyacheslav Pivan, Deputy Head of the Budgeting and Management Accounting Department, role in the team — economist, Kirill Baydakov, chief specialist of the gas supply modes group, analyst, Maxim Olifer, chief specialist of the central dispatch service, Vladislav Krupenko, specialist of the department Primorsky Power Plant's capital construction technologist and team captain. According to the team members, they did not consider any other candidate for the role of captain: while still a student at FEFU, Vladislav took part in the student league of the championship, and in 2018 — as captain; twice participated in the finals in Moscow.

The topics chosen for the championship are large—scale and relevant: in 2018 — the development of the Arctic, in 2019 - the digitalization of the Far East in terms of project readiness, inevitability and manageable risks.

This year's engineering case consisted of two tasks: to evaluate the use of digital technologies in the Asia-Pacific region, to make a comparative analysis of several countries and identify the "winner", as well as to propose a digitalization project for one of the proposed "territories of advanced development". The GazBand-Vostok team chose the Chukotka TOP and offered potential investors interesting solutions in the field of gasification of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.

Taking into account the climatic characteristics and the complexity of the terrain, the authors have included a set of modern digital solutions in the Chukotka gasification project in order to reduce the risks of emergency situations and increase the maintenance period of equipment. We have provided an intelligent system for analyzing and storing data coming from telemetry devices, drone patrolling, and the use of blockchain technology for financial transactions and reporting. The experts' greatest interest was aroused by the proposal of remote training of specialists on the basis of the already operating Gazprom Gas Distribution Far East training center with the introduction of a system of digital twins of serviced facilities and VR technologies.

Now the team will have to perform at an even higher level in Moscow. The topic of digitalization remains, however, one can only guess what tasks will have to be solved in the new case. The team members all assured that they would do everything in their power to perform well.

A source: Gazprom Gas Distribution Far East