Rustam Minnikhanov visits the Siberian Schlumberger Training Centre in Tyumen

On June 18, during his working visit to the Tyumen region, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov visited the Siberian Schlumberger Training Centre.

Schlumberger is one of the largest oilfield service companies operating in more than 120 countries around the world.The company provides a wide range of products and services from geological exploration to production management.

The training centre was opened in 2008 to train and improve the professional skills of technical specialists from both Schlumberger itself and companies operating in the Russian oil and gas industry.  

Minnikhanov got acquainted with the organization of work in the Centre. In particular, he visited a training well drilling unit, fully equipped for carrying out operations in a well, looked around a training site for hydraulic fracturing and a site for practical training on equipment maintenance.

Representatives of the training centre said that the centre can accommodate daily up to 350 people to attend courses lasting from 1 day to 2 months. Trainings are conducted in English and Russian. More than 35,000 people have been trained from 2008 to 2019. This year, seven students from Tatarstan will undertake an internship at the training centre.

Minnikhanov noted the potential for expanding cooperation between the Siberian Training Centre and universities of the republic in training specialists for the oil and gas industry. He also suggested that Schlumberger should consider the possibility of opening a laboratory in the republic. “Today, many of the world's leading companies are opening their specialized laboratories in Tatarstan, inlcudimg Yokogawa, Siemens, Schneider Electric and others. Students will be able to learn from your technology. They will have relevant skills to organize work in future. I think that we need to work more closely with each other,” Minnikhanov said.