Tatarstan President visits top petroleum educational institutions

On December 16 during his working trip to the South-East of the republic Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov visited Leninogorsk Petroleum College and Almetyevsk State Oil Institute, being part of the educational cluster established by OAO “Tatneft”.

To the point, Leninogorsk Petroleum College was organized by Ministry of Petroleum Industries in 1957 to deliver evening courses. In 1966 the college was reorganized into Leninogorsk Petroleum College, offering full-time, part-time and evening courses.

Currently, there are 1200 full-time and 300 part-time students attending the college. About 400 students graduate from the college every year with 96% of them getting jobs at OAO “Tatneft”, “Gazprom”, “Surgutneftegaz”, “Sibneft”, “YUKOS”, “Lukoil”, “Rosneft”.

Rustam Minnikhanov looked around college classrooms and laboratories and spoke to students.

Later on the same day, Tatarstan President visited a science education center at Almetyevsk State Oil Institute.

The science education center for automated industrial management system was established in 2009 at Almetyevsk State Oil Institute with financial support of OAO “Tatneft”.

Specialized laboratories of the center are equipped with state-of-the-art equipment of top world companies such as Yokogawa (Japan), Roxar (Norway), Emerson, Honeywell, Lufkin Automation, Rockwell Automation, HP (USA), Vega, Samson (Germany).

Having visited educational institutions in Almetyevsk, Tatarstan President held a meeting on training specialists for the regional industry.