Deputy Prime Minister
Alexander Novak was on hand to take part in the Russian Energy Week International
Forum Youth Day, which once again brought together schoolchildren, university
students, and young fuel and energy industry specialists.
Youth Day included a
special intellectual game – ‘Who Wants to Work in the Engineer Industry’ – co-hosted
by Novak.
The game welcomed
three teams of industry company heads and representatives and students from
industry universities.
The oil and gas
industry was represented by Gazprom Neft Management Board Chairman Alexander
Dyukov and Industrial University of Tyumen first-year oil and gas business master’s
student Maria Sivkova. The mining industry team consisted of Association Market
Council Supervisory Board Member Vladimir Rashevsky and St. Petersburg Mining
University fifth-year mining transport systems student Ilya Stepanov. Representing the electric power
industry were Rosseti Executive Director and
Management Board Chairman Andrey Ryumin and Moscow Power Engineering
Institute first-year electrical engineering master’s student Yegor Sergeev.
The participants
answered questions about the history of mining, the location of significant
facilities in Russia and abroad, scientific discoveries, and the technological processes
involved in energy production, among others.
The players got two lifelines
– help from the audience and experts, who included the rectors of Russia’s top
industry universities. The teams all managed to answer their seven questions
and earn the maximum number of points.
The result was a tie,
with all three teams bringing home the main prize: internships at Gazprom Neft,
Association Market Council, and Rosseti for the students and internships with
the Russian Government for the mentors.
“The power industry is
incredibly advanced and is adopting cutting-edge digital technologies like nowhere
else. So it is especially gratifying to see so many talented, enterprising
schoolchildren, students, and young industry specialists – the future of the
energy sector – here today. As you know, Russia is a global energy leader, and
it is very important that we continue to be so,” Novak said.
At the end of the
game, Novak handed out commemorative diplomas to the participants of
professional oil and gas and energy industry competitions that included the Oil
Industry IT Championship, the CASE-IN International Engineering Championship, and
the Russian Graduate Qualification Competition.
Source: Government of Russia website
