Drive-in drive-out method of employing people for Arctic oil and gas resources exploration
Authors:   Institute of Economy, Ural Branch of RAS, Vladimir Loginov , Margarita Ignatieva ,   Institute of Economy, Ural Branch of RAS; Ural State Mining University, Vera Iurak ,   Institute of Economy, Ural Branch of RAS, Irina Drozdova ,   Ural State Mining University
Published: October 2020

Research relevance. Main Russian reserves, including oil and gas, are currently focused at northern and Arctic territories. Their exploration requires all necessary assets: labor, non-human, and financial. People employment for oil and gas deposits exploitation is connected with a drive-in drive-out method first of all. Personnel employment plan reliability should take into account the drive-in drive-out method development trends and existing contradiction overcoming. Research aim is to analyze the use of the drive-in drive-out method as applied to oil and gas fields development in the conditions of the North and Arctic by the example of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, determine the developing trends and existing contradictions requiring overcoming. Research methodology includes generalization and analysis of the data on drive-in drive-out method application, as well as the methods of matching, grouping, averaging, and analog. Results. In course of research the practicability of drive-in drive-out as a method of employing people for oil and gas resources exploitation. Time-dependent changes in the drive-in drive-out method application have been revealed (total and relevant number of workers, change in the composition of drive-in drive-out employees, the share of regional drive-in drive-out, and change in the composition of foreign labor). The prerequisites for the drive-in drive-out method have been formulated; they have first been conditioned on the lack of qualified workers among local population and the legacy of the Soviet period when the professional training of skilled personnel was not given due attention. The current situation with the drivein drive-out method of employing people is characterized by the distribution of drive-in drive-out workers across the territory of the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous district, depending on the location of the developed and potential oil and gas fields, as well as the historically formed contour of urban and rural settlements: the oil and gas producing south, the developed gas producing central regions, the transport and logistics hub with the mining Polar Urals, new arctic (peripheral) oil and gas producing regions, developing east 78 "Izvestiya vysshikh uchebnykh zavedenii. Gornyi zhurnal". No. 5. 2020 ISSN 0536-1028 and depressive southwest. The contradictory aspects of the drive-in drive-out method have been established. The practicability of drive-in drive-out from an economic point of view raises no objections. The social aspect is assessed negatively (the social aspect includes work organization, turnover, the sociopsychological situation; the medical aspect includes constant acclimatization and re-acclimatization). The negative impact on the growth of unemployment has not been confirmed. There must be no unreasonable limitation of the drive-in drive-out method, especially as the current situation will objectively require an increase in drive-in drive-out scale. Summary. Drive-in drive-out method of employing people for oil and gas resources exploitation is generally accepted and applied both in home and abroad. Drive-in drive-out scale should be noted. Under these conditions, in order to increase the reliability of investments plan related to the labor support of projects, it is necessary to take into account the identified trends in drive-in drive-out development and provide for measures to prevent or mitigate the identified contradictions of the drive-in drive-out method.