PetroCup Tournament at DECOM-2022 Petroleum Discussion Forum

The annual DECOM-2022 Petroleum Discussion Forum was held in St. Petersburg on October 5-7, 2022, with over 150 delegates joining in-person from various cities in the Russian Federation. Over 800 participants attended the event online.

As always, PetroCup Field Development Tournament was run during the event. Every PetroCup Tournaments always piques the interest of operating companies, oilfield service companies, and university representatives. And this year was no different.

The PetroCup Tournament was held at Azimut Hotel in Saint Petersburg. In total 11 national teams attended, comprising Russian oil and gas companies, research institutes, specialized higher educational institutions from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Samara, Ufa, Almetyevsk, Perm and Orenburg. Overt 120 members took part in PetroCup Tournament. 5 national teams participated in person and 6 teams joined online.

Over the course of three days, the participants were challenged, and each team had to perform to their best ability by applying available knowledge and experience of different professions.

This year's PetroCup Tournament featured a brand new synthetic tutorial asset, which is far more challenging with far more functionality available to the user. The new asset, was added to the extensive Nafta College library of synthetic assets, and was first presented at DECOM.

According to the standings, the Tatneft (Silur) team secured the first place by achieving a fantastic result, the team of the Ufa Scientific and Technical Center (Yura) came second, and university team from St. Petersburg Mining University (Devon) came third.

The Nafta College team sends best regards to the winners and to all teams which joined the PetroCup Tournament, we are looking forward to seeing everyone next year at the next Tournament, which will be held on August 23-25, 2023 in Ufa (Republic of Bashkortostan) as part of the DECOM-2023 Petroleum Discussion Forum.