The maintenance of oil pumps is a complex task for any operating organization, and for an industrial enterprise in the oil and gas sector of the economy, this issue has a high degree of urgency. One of the reasons for this is a wide spread of pumping equipment in all areas of oil and gas enterprises. At the same time, an aggressive environment, uneven load, remote facilities, and harsh climatic zones (especially in the areas of the Arctic region or production platforms) are factors that make it relevant to develop special systems that help or simplify the maintenance of pumping equipment. Dynamic modeling is one of the modern technologies which allows for solving the urgent issue of assessing the technical condition of equipment. It is the basis of systems that carry out diagnostics and prognostic calculations and allow for assessing the dynamic state of objects under various conditions of their operation, among other functions. Augmented reality technology is a technology that allows for reducing the time for equipment maintenance by reducing the time for searching and processing various information required in the maintenance process. This paper presents an investigation of the effectiveness of an augmented reality and a dynamic simulation system collaboration in oil pump maintenance. Since there is insufficient research on the joint application of these two technologies, the urgent issue is to prove the effectiveness of such collaboration. For this purpose, this paper provides a description of the system structure, gives a description of the development process of the augmented reality system application and tests the application using Microsoft HoloLens 2.

The research is dedicated to the development of special devices (capsules) that can be used to control the mining ore behavior in the technological unit in order to increase processes efficiency. In the first part of the article, the choice of the discrete element method for gen-erating various particle trajectories in the unit (drum pelletizer) was substantiated. This part describes the specific technologies that were used to recognize the pelletizing mode. In par-ticular, conversation of paths to sensor readings is implemented using the Matlab Sensor Fusion and Tracking Toolbox. The obtained readings were processed using two neural network classifiers (DNN and LSTM). As a result, stable models for recognizing the pelletizing modes of the unit were obtained. LSTM recognition accuracy is greater than DNN. The developed approach can be used to recognize the operating modes of other technological units. In addition, data on particles trajectories can be used to improve DEM models of technological processes. Future work consists of the capsule physical implementation and testing the recognition algorithm on a real unit.

The article describes the current situation in the global uranium concentrate market, explains the reasons for the formation of an excess amount of finished goods and the subsequent decreasein prices. The authorsevaluated the prospects of using market mechanisms to improve the financial results of Russian uranium mining enterprises. The location of the main mining centers in comparison with the centers of consumption of finished goods, pricing for the products of uranium mining companies, the dynamics of price changes over the past 20 years, the influence of non-market factors on the supply of finished products are analyzed.This study led to the conclusion that the expectation of changes in the market situation is not viable in a long term. The authors outlined the direction to improve the profitability of mining enterprises by introducing technological changes aimed at reducing the cost of the final product.