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My parents are oil workers

On June 1, International Children’s Day, the first corporate children’s drawing contest “My parents are oil workers!” completed. It started at the end of April and received a great response from young artists whose mothers and fathers work in our company.

24 children under 14 took part in the creative contest, presenting both individual and collective works done with brothers and sisters. Using paints, felt-tip pens and colored pencils, the children showed how they see the work of their parents-oil workers.

Most of the contestants were children of oil field workers, so the drawings most often featured oil derricks and drilling rigs, pipelines and vertical steel tanks, various vehicles.

Of course, none of the little artists had ever been to the fields, but all of them were able to reproduce a reliable picture of field work with amazing accuracy, based on the stories of their parents! For example, Georgiy Solovyov drew in detail how his father Fyodor, an electric and gas welder from Maiskoye field, repairs a pipeline, and Polina Yushta, the daughter of an O&G operator from Maiskoye field, drew the drilling process at South-Maiskoye field.

The profession of an oil worker includes many other specialties, without which the process of oil and gas production and transportation, as well as the life activities at the fields, are impossible. Our little artists understood that well. Therefore, among the submitted drawings there was a drawing by Maksim and Aleksey, the sons of Vadim Kazakevich, the Head of our corporate Medical Service, and the work of Valeria Goremykina, whose mother Nelli Mukhametova works in the HR Department, and a drawing of Veronica, the daughter of the Lead accountant Maria Belyakova. Thanks to participation in the contest, in the process of creating their drawings, the children learned a little more about the work of their mothers and fathers, and this is the best result of the contest!

All its participants were recognized as winners, and on June 1, InternationalChildren’s Day, they received well-deserved awards – folders with sets for creativity inside. Each of the folders was decorated with a colorful collage of the children’s drawings. A large banner with the same image was placed in the IE office, where all employees can admire it. Next year, the corporate children’s drawing contest, which has received such a positive response, will be held again. It will have a separate nomination for works made by children together with their parents. Joint creativity will bring them even closer, and perhaps will become the first step towards an oil profession for some of the young artists.