A new experience of using the technology of interdisciplinary activity training of students and specialists raising their qualifications is presented in a virtual environment of engineering activity - when drilling a virtual horizontal well in a virtual oil field. This innovative technology was developed at Gubkin University and was awarded in 2015 by the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of education. New opportunities for its use in the training of specialists in the field of geonavigation during the drilling of horizontal oil and gas wells appeared at the university due to the establishment in the university of a new infrastructure facility-the Center for Offshore Drilling of Rosneft Oil Cpmpany. The hardware-software complex of the center allows for remote geological and technological support for drilling horizontal wells on land and at sea. The monitoring of the profile of the wellbore formed during the drilling process and its management in geo-navigation is carried out by a team of specialists including a drilling technologist, geologist, geophysicist and petrophysicist. In the interdisciplinary training on geosteering of a virtual well described in the article, this team is represented by four groups of students of the corresponding departments of the university, 3-4 people each.
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