Russian Energy Week. The final of the IT championship of the oil industry. From left to right: Vyacheslav Polunin, Denis Korablev and Maksim Tikhonov
As part of the Youth Day of the Russian Energy Week 2023, the final of the III IT Championship of the oil industry took place in Moscow. In the direction of “MVP Development” in the category “Employees of industry companies”, third place was taken by the team “TerraGeoControl”, which included teachers from the SPbGASU Department of Geotechnics, associate professor Vyacheslav Polunin and PhD student Denis Korablev.
Vyacheslav Polunin provided scientific and technical support for the project and developed the data visualization section. Denis Korablev was responsible for the calculation sections and the temperature forecast section.
The team also included the chief specialist at Gazpromneft-Terminal LLC Olga Rudometova (team leader, economic feasibility study for the project), full-stack developer Maksim Tikhonov (development of the server and user parts of the web application, development of the application database) and the chief specialist at Gazpromneft-Terminal LLC Alina Khabirova (economic feasibility study of the project).
The competition participants were required to develop a tool or application for comprehensive monitoring of permafrost soils in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation.
“Permafrost soils occupy almost two-thirds of the territory of our country, and it is in these areas that most of the natural resources are concentrated. Their extraction requires the construction of appropriate infrastructure. To ensure the safety of these structures, the temperature conditions of the foundations should be strictly controlled, both during the construction process and after the start of operation of the structure. For this purpose, it is best to integrate an automatic monitoring system at construction sites. It was the development of the software part of such a system, consisting of specialized sensors and measuring instruments, data transmission systems, server equipment, that our team was engaged in,” said Denis Korablev.
During three summer months, the team discussed the design, layout, functionality and competitive features of the future product. They selected programming languages and libraries for working with data and graphics, developed the database architecture and the application as a whole, and began to implement the layout. Championship experts helped during the work. When developing the scientific and technical part of the project, the team consulted with SPbGASU leading experts in the field of permafrost soils: professor at the Department of Geotechnics Igor Sakharov, member of the dissertation council, chairman of the state examination committee Vladimir Paramonov, senior lecturer at the Department of Geotechnics Maksim Paramonov.
The result of the work was the creation of a web application with a user-friendly interface and extensive functionality for various user groups. Having received temperature data from sensors, the application converts it into visual graphs, diagrams and temperature isofields. You can calculate the settlement of structures according to current standards, and determine the unevenness of settlement. It is possible to assess the dynamics of temperature changes under the structure and predict the onset of thawing.
“Participation in the championship provided an opportunity to work on an interdisciplinary product that can be attributed to several areas at once - oil and gas, construction, IT. Perhaps it will become one of the modules of some global system. We plan to further develop in this direction,” shared Vyacheslav Polunin.
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