Unmanned Kamazy began work in the Arctic

Gazprom neft"" began transporting goods To the Arctic in unmanned vehicles, which the company announced in May 2023. Self-driving trucks "" KamAZ went on flights at the East Messoyakhskoye field, located on the Gydan Peninsula. Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Cars transport goods along a 140-kilometer winter road connecting the autonomous oil industry with the village of Tazovsky. The use of unmanned vehicles will increase the efficiency of logistics of the company's northern fields and increase the volume of supplies of necessary equipment and materials, Gazprom Neft said.

Unmanned Kamazy began work in the Arctic

As specified in the company, vehicles are equipped with several types of sensors that build a digital map of roads, scan objects in the front zone, recognize obstacles within a radius of 200 meters, and record static and moving objects. The unmanned convoy is controlled using Russian software.

We created the necessary infrastructure, together with the developers tested and finalized unmanned systems and transport itself, formed a regulatory framework, trained employees, "says Dmitry Potapov, General Director of Gazpromneft-Supply, whose words are quoted by the Gazprom Neft press service on May 5, 2023. - Now we are starting a new stage. In 2023, we will be ready to provide a service to provide unmanned transportation not only to Gazprom Neft, but also to other Russian industrial companies.

In turn, the general director of Messoyakhaneftegaz Alexei Kan noted that digital projects make up a significant part of the company's technological portfolio: artificial intelligence is used in the design and construction of wells, monitoring the safety of equipment and the state of permafrost, the digital diary system is used to extract difficult oil in the Arctic.^[1]

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