Rinat Bayriev acknowledged as Gazprom’s Best Welder in 2011
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Release
The 2011 Gazprom Best Welder skills competition was held.
The winner was Rinat Bayriev (Gazprom transgaz Moscow).
The second place was taken by Maxim Osipov (Gazprom dobycha Orenburg) and Anvar Khamatgalimov (Gazprom transgaz Ufa).
Alexander Baranov (Gazprom dobycha Noyabrsk) shared the third place with Andrey Onuchin (Gazprom transgaz Tchaikovsky) and Alexander Denisov (Gazprom dobycha Krasnodar).
Background
The Gazprom Best Welder skills competition has been held since 2003 once every two years.
In 2011 representatives from 25 gas transmission and production subsidiaries of Gazprom Group took part in the skills competition. These companies had become the winners of the first stage of the competition provisionally held among the subsidiaries.
At the second (final) stage of the competition welders had to pass two exams:
- theory exam – knowledge of welding production basics;
- practice exam – welding of control welded joints of various diameters.