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    Gazpromneft-Aero Holds Second International Aviation Fueling Competition

    Oct. 10, 2019
    The official partners of the competition were NIS, Gazpromneft’s subsidiary in Serbia and the aviation service company JAT Tehnika, who provided the venue for the practical part of the competition.
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    Gazpromneft-Aero held the second international Aviation Fuelling Challenge (AFC), in collaboration with the IATA Fuel Quality Pool (IFQP), a joint group established for the inspection of aircraft fuel quality and The Joint Inspection Group (JIG), an international organization for the development of aviation fuel supply standards. The competition was held on 1-3 October in Belgrade (Serbia) and saw ten teams from international aviation fuel companies take part in the challenge: Total (France), CNAF (China), China Aviation Oil (China), Petrolimex Aviation (Vietnam), NIS (Serbia), OMV Petrom (Romania), Makpetrol A.D. (Macedonia), Hifa Oil (Bosnia and Herzegovina), BATO (Russia) and Gazpromneft-Aero (Russia).

    The official partners of the competition were NIS, Gazpromneft’s subsidiary in Serbia and the aviation service company JAT Tehnika, who provided the venue for the practical part of the competition.

    The competition was based on the application of international quality standards for aviation fueling and required participants to submit tests in electronic format and complete two practical tasks. The team stage included four practical tasks with time limits and there were also three individual nominations for aviation fuel-tanker drivers (Wingman), shift supervisors (Operational manager), and deputy production chiefs (Technical manager). The AFC jury panel included representatives of IFQP and JIG.

    The best-performing team of the Aviation Fuelling Challenge 2019 was Gazpromneft-Aero (Russia), followed by NIS (Serbia), while the third place went to CNAF (China).

    The individual prizes were awarded to Guangzhong Zhang (China Aviation Oil), Vladimir Gorin (Gazpromneft-Aero) and Ljubinko Marinković (NIS) for ‘Best Fuel Tanker Driver’. The ‘Best Shift Supervisor’ award went to Alexander Slugachev (Gazpromneft-Aero), Eric Brunel (TOTAL) and Ruslan Mikhailov (BATO). The deputy production chiefs took on the role of team captain and had the opportunity to put their professional skills to the challenge. The list of prize winners included Vladislav Goverdovsky (Gazpromneft-Aero), Marija Jovovic (NIS) and Konstantin Shapranov (BATO).

    Vladimir Yegorov, general director of Gazpromneft-Aero, “This year, for the first time in the framework of AFC, a workshop was held among the competition participants, which involved each team presenting practical ideas and solutions to ensure safe aircraft refueling. We managed to gather unique insight thanks to the practical experience demonstrated by international experts. Our competition is the only world-wide challenge where production specialists from all over the world are invited to exchange best practices and work on the development and standardization of global aviation fuel supply processes. We’d like to thank our partners for their support and participation in the second international aviation fueling challenge and hope it will become a permanent platform for the interaction between industry experts.”