First Vocational Skills Festival held at Gazprom UGS
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Between April 11 and 15, 2011 the Vocational Skills Festival for the Best Worker Prize was held by Gazprom UGS for the first time in the company’s history at the premises of its branches – Stavropol UGS Center and Stavropol Emergency Response & Well Workover Center.
Well workover team of Stavropol Emergency Response & Well Workover Center performs tripping operations against time
The Festival united skills competitions in the following jobs: oil and gas production operator, electric and gas welder, corrosion protection technician, instrumentation operator. The Festival also identified the best well workover team. A total of 120 people from 19 branches and the company’s management took part in the Festival.
Sergey Shilov, Director General of Gazprom UGS in his address to the Festival participants noted that advancing the vocational skills among the company’s employees was a key objective of the company’s management team.
The winners were announced after summing up the results. These were: Vladimir Dubinin from the Stavropol UGS Center as the best oil and gas production operator; Evgeny Kostromin from the Stavropol UGS Center as the best instrumentation operator, Fyodor Ptashinsky from the Stavropol UGS Center as the best electric and gas welder and Evgeny Kutuzov from the Stavropol UGS Center as the best corrosion protection technician.
Evgeny Kutuzov from Stavropol UGS Center performs competition assignment
The Stavropol Emergency Response & Well Workover Center team became the winner of the well workover teams competition. The team members are Yury Serdyuk, Vladimir Orobets, Vitaly Balkovoy, Alexander Maltsev and Alexey Kononenko.
The Festival winners received diplomas and valuable prizes. Besides, the prizewinners will get money rewards. Commemorative awards were handed out to all the participants by the Unified Trade Union of Gazprom UGS.
Winners of first Vocational Skills Festival and Sergey Shilov, Director General of Gazprom UGS Center (center)
Background
Being Gazprom’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Gazprom UGS holds 25 UGS facilities located in Russia. The company encompasses 24 branches in 15 regions of the Russian Federation.
Gazprom UGS annually arranges vocational skills competitions in major blue-collar jobs starting from its foundation. The competitions are aimed at developing skills among the company’s workers, promulgating blue-collar jobs as well as disseminating state-of-the-art labor methods and techniques. This year vocational skills competitions were united in the Festival, an additional corporate event that allowed for experience sharing among the company’s branches and pulled together the company’s employees.