INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL OF GUBKIN UNIVERSITY 2021

From 5 to 9 July 2021, the annual international educational summer school of Gubkin University was held for students and specialists of the oil and gas industry.  The Summer School included two areas: "Drilling and Well Construction" and "Sustainable Marine and Subsea Technologies".

As part of the "Sustainable Marine and Subsea Technologies" direction, aspects of environmental impact in connection with the production, supply and processing of petroleum products, new solutions to environmental problems in the oil and gas industry, modern technologies for offshore oil and gas operations were considered, as well as legal regulation and international cooperation in this area.  The direction was organized jointly with the University of Stavanger (Stavanger, Norway) with the support of the Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Improvement of the Quality of Higher Education (DIKU).  Head of direction: Professor of the Department of Development and Exploitation of Oil Fields of Gubkin University - Anatoly Borisovich Zolotukhin.

Drilling and Well Construction area was focused on issues related to new technologies in the field of drilling equipment, incident prevention, the use of machine learning in drilling processes, trends in automation and digitalization of drilling operations.  The head was Mikhail Yakovlevich Gelfgat, professor of the Oil and Gas Well Drilling Department of Gubkin University.

Among the lecturers of the School were representatives of the faculty of Gubkin University, University of Stavanger (Norway), University of Leoben (Austria), Jilin University (China), University College Molde (Norway), Macquarie Law School (Australia), as well as specialists from Digital  Petroleum, WellsX LLC.

School classes were held daily online in English.  More than 1000 students took part in the work of the school, of which 395 have successfully passed the test.  The participants were representatives of 79 universities and organizations from 29 countries of the world.

Support for the organization of the summer school was provided by the SPE Student Section and the Department of Teaching Technology at Gubkin University.





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