Gazprom transgaz Kuban chooses Best Worker
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Between March 27 and 31 Gazprom transgaz Kuban held a skills competition to choose the Best Welder and the Best Corrosion Prevention Expert. Around 30 employees from nine branches of the company took part in the competition. The winner in each nomination will represent the company in the nation-wide contest to be arranged by Gazprom.
The skills competition participants performed specific theoretical and practical tasks as well as the tasks related to labor protection and first aid.
Following the results of the competition, Evgeny Denisenko, employee of the Yablonovskoye Emergency and Remedial Response Division was named as the Best Welder. The Best Corrosion Prevention Expert title was awarded to Sergey Zholtikov, foreman of the Electrochemical Protection Service under the Process Equipment Repair and Checkout Center.
Valery Runov, Deputy Director General of Gazprom transgaz Kuban noted that, “Creation of decent working conditions for hard and daily activity crucial for the gas industry has always been in the focus of our company. Arrangement of such a large-scale and interesting skills competition serves as clear evidence. It’s a pleasure for us to understand that the competition has already established its own long-standing traditions and history; it has helped achieve numerous victories at a higher level. Today we have proven once again the utmost skills and competence of our workers and experts”.
Background
Gazprom transgaz Kuban combines 16 branches into a unified technological, organizational and financial system. The company’s industrial facilities are located in the Krasnodar Krai, Rostov Oblast and the Republic of Adygea. Gazprom transgaz Kuban runs a gas trunkline system with the length exceeding 8,000 kilometers including over 300 gas distribution stations and 9 compressor stations as well as 24 CNG filling stations. The company employs some 7,000 people.
The skills competition is held on the biannual basis and sets the main tasks of raising the status of blue-collar jobs and spreading state-of-the-art techniques and job practices within the system of corrosion prevention and welding operations.
Some 65 per cent of Gazprom transgaz Kuban employees are workers. Operational quality and sustainability of the gas transmission system directly depend on their skills.