KFU students third in OilCase 2023 contest

The results of the largest Russian competition in case solving in petroleum science and petroleum engineering have been publicized.

Over 800 participants from Kazan, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tyumen, Ufa, Perm, Orenburg, Nefteyugansk and Tomsk took part in the OilCase 2023. Kazan was represented by master’s students Azat Galiev and Ilya Fedorov (Institue of Geology and Petroleum Technologies), Tatyana Ivanova, third-year student of the Institute of International Relations, and Bulat Sabirov, third-year student of Kazan National Research Technological University.

The championship was held in two tracks – oil and gas and IT. As part of the first, the teams were immersed in the digital world of OilCase: they conducted an in-depth economic analysis, looked for business opportunities in the region and worked through them. Participants had to go through the whole process – from finding hypotheses for business development to thinking through hydrocarbon production and marketing chains. At the second stage, the participants had to present a detailed work with the approved business opportunities and an elaboration of a project development case.

In the IT track, during the first stage, the participants took a course ‘BB-python for beginners’. Its goal was to get acquainted with Python programming language syntax through practice. In the second stage, the teams participated in a hackathon, where they had to propose solutions to traditional problems of a petroleum engineer using machine learning methods.

The final was held in person in Tomsk. The task for it consisted of two parts – defense of presentations and participation in a thematic game, created especially for the championship and devoted to oil and gas business. It had an educational character and was aimed at showing the participants as managers, economists, and specialists of other related fields.

The Kazanites shared third place with Siberian Federal University.