The competition jury received 21 applications from participants in the period from April, 14 to May, 4. 22 original scientific ideas were presented. National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic” and its structural division Poltava Oil and Gas College submitted 12 entries.
On May 7, the public defense took place online, authors presented their ideas for interesting engineering solutions to change ineffective operation processes in the petroleum industry. The participants were congratulated by the Head of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Ukraine Professional Chapter Rikhard Bilyi, the Director of Newfolk Oil and Gas Consulting Center Andrii Zakrevskyi, and the Director of Poltava Oil and Gas College of Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic Liubov Shumska.
The participants were required to present their ideas in the form of a summary up to 450 words and not more than 3 slides of the presentation.
The work evaluation was based on such criteria as:
- the relevancy of the topic;
- meeting the competition requirements;
- the public presentation quality;
- the idea summary in up to 450 words;
- the size of the presentation (up to 3 slides).
Depending on the extent to which the participants’ work met the criteria they were given from 0 to 10 points. In the end, every work received a total number of personal grades from every member of the jury. The winners in every category were the participants with the largest number of points.
The participants’ presentations were marked by the professional jury, Andrii Zakrevskyi, Mykhailo Bratakh, Kostiantyn Chaus, Branimir Cvetkovic, Vyacheslav Filatov, Iryna Supruniuk and Rikhard Bilyi.
On May 12 at 12:00, the jury determined the winners in six categories, Geology and Exploration, Reservoir Management, Drilling, Engineering, Production, Industry Improvement.
According to the results of the jury’s rating, the winners were as follows:
- in Geology and Exploration - student of Poltava Oil and Gas College of Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic Tamila Shyrai;
- in Reservoir Management - student of National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic” Dmytro Kliuchka;
- in Drilling - student of National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic” Dmytro Derevyanko;
- in Engineering - student of National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic” Anna Karman;
- in Production - student of Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas Taras Shumilan;
- in Industry Improvement - student of National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic” Oksana Mykyichuk.
The winners were given gifts from Schlumberger Ukraine and the main sponsor of the competition, the largest national oil and gas company of Ukraine, Ukrhasvydobuvannia, as well as a consultation with the best HR specialists of the industry on how to write a resume or a CV.
The main prize - a free of charge participation for the authors in the oil and gas conference of Newfolk Oil and Gas Consulting Center in Lviv - was given to the students of group 501MV of Oil and Gas Engineering and Technologies specialty of National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic”, Vadym Kovtun and Kostiantyn Duvanov.
“During the participants’ presentations, the jury were unbiased and strict. The members of the jury asked interesting questions on the practical implementation of the presented ideas. It did not matter if you were a student or a young industry specialist, the requirements remained unchanged,” the participants said.
The winner of online voting for the most active participant of the conference to receive a prize from Weatherford Ukraine was graduate of National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic” in 2019, Schlumberger Ukraine specialist Stanislav Demchenko (128 votes).
The top-three leaders included student of Poltava Oil and Gas College of Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic Tamila Shyrai (101 votes) and student of Education and Research Institute of Oil and Gas (ERIOG) of Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic Dmytro Kliuchka (87 votes). I total, 776 votes were received.
One of the winners, student of group 301pNH of ERIOG of National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic”, Vice-President of Student Chapter of Society of Petroleum Engineers Dmytro Kliuchka shared his impression about the competition, “I wanted to challenge myself and submitted two articles on very different topics for the jury’s consideration. I was the only participant, both of whose works passed the competitive admission. One was about the ammonium salts, and it was based on the real facts and results of experiments, which was mentioned by the jury. It is the basis of my student research article. The other described the world tendencies and certain conclusions on them. This competition was a great chance to understand whether the results of my scientific activity were interesting for the industry and business representatives. Beside the questions, all the participants hot great pieces of advice, which I personally will use in the future.”
“While drawing the results, the jury gave a special consideration to the possibility of introducing the presented ideas into the real life, and how useful they would be. Every participant deserves to be called a Petroleum Leader, since they were not afraid of the critics and presented their thoughts and ideas at this competition,” commented the organizers.
Independent Petroleum Leaders is an online platform at which specialists with great practical experience speak about various aspects of exploring, producing and refining hydrocarbons. According to the participants, their goals is to provide educational activity and exchange experience in realizing successful cases of petroleum industry. For the students, this is unique information they will never find in books. For the industry representatives, this is a chance to improve their prospective employees and to share their experience.
Among the partners were National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic”, SPE Ukraine Professional Chapter, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) Ukraine.
The uniqueness of the platform lies in the experienced specialists sharing the real cases of the biggest companies and speaking about the relevant problems of petroleum production. During the lectures, students can learn what modern approaches and technologies are used by the leading world companies. Among the lecturers of the platform were also the specialists of the Department of Oil and Gas Engineering and Technologies of National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic” Oleksandr Petrash, Viktoriia Dmytrenko, Oleh Zimin. The educative seminars were first of all meant for the students who plan to work in the oil and gas industry. The lectures were delivered in interactive form, with live communication during the live streams and with the online platforms like Zoom. After the stream, it was possible to watch the video at the YouTube channel of the project.
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