On 12 July, speaking at the opening ceremony of the VIII Regional Open Field Skills Competition of Young Geologists held in Almetyevsk, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov said:” It is a great honor for us to be present at the opening ceremony of competition of young geologists. Tatarstan has a well-developed oil industry and the most important thing in this industry is people, specialists in their field. It is necessary to train geologists starting from school and the work you are doing now is the future of the oil industry of our country”.
He stressed that time requires new skills from specialists in this sphere. “Deposits are being exhausted, new technologies are needed, and here geology is the foundation for this. I want to wish you successful participation”, he concluded.
In his turn Director General of the Tatneft Oil Company Nail Maganov said that geologists are the most wanted specialists in oil production industry.
As many as 36 teams from Tatarstan, the Crimea, Perm region, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have come to take part in 12 contests of the competition, such as traverse, hydrology, HMS and others.