AO “PKKR”: WE TRAIN FUTURE GEOLOGISTS

The meeting of company management with young geologists took place in AO “PetroKazakhstan Kumkol Resources” office, which represent our region at the IV Kazakhstan Field Olympics of young geologists.
The competitions of young geologists took place in the children’s recreation center “Star”, located on the territory of Schuchinsk-Borovoye resort area in the Katarkol village Akmola region. Olympics organizers – Corporate Fund “Zhas Geolog”, with the support of the Ministry on Investment and Development of RoK, Committee of geology and subsoil use MiR RoK, the National Geological Prospecting Company “Kazgeologiya”.
In the competition participated pupils of secondary schools and colleges of 21 teams from Kazakhstan, Russia and Kyrgyzstan. Our country was represented by groups from Almaty, Atyrau, Aktobe, Mangistau, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Petropavlovsk and Kyzylorda.
Young geologists of “Adamas” team defended the colors of our region. Participation of young Kyzylorda people in the field competition became possible due to financial support of AO “PetroKazakhstan Kumkol Resources”. Company took over the costs of equipment, travel expenses, purchase of applications and geological materials, etc.

– Geologist profession – one of the priorities for Kazakhstan, which has a variety of minerals and rich fields of various metals, – said Chairperson of the board of AO “PKKR” Qin Hongwei. I believe that this Olympics will help you in the future to make your choice on profession of geologist and become discoverer of subsoil. This is the first experience of Kyzylorda team in such competitions. Hopefully in the future the results will be better. Just want to point out that with their success they glorified the entire region, because at the Olympics they performed not from the company, but from the entire region.
– The team included eight high school pupils from the Kazakh-Turkish lyceum for gifted children № 9, school-gymnasium № 1 after Kaltay Mukhamedzhanov and school №2 “Murager”, – said one of the delegation leaders, a geophysicist of AO “PKKR” Yerken Umbetkulov. – They have been selected after testing in April. Then we start the preparation for Olympics – they taught theory, practiced at the fields. The team was named as “Adamas” meaning the diamond.
One of the leaders of “Adamas” Bogenbai Yerzhanov, geologist of AO “PKKR” thanked the Chairperson of the Board of AO “PKKR” Qin Hongwei for provided support to pupils and handed him a letter of thanks from the Chairperson of the Committee of Geology and Subsoil Use of the Ministry of Investment and Development of RoK, Bazarbai Nurabaev.

– The “PetroKazakhstan” company, in particular, works on occupational guidance of Kyzylorda youth, rising of interest among school pupils to study of geological sciences, – says Bogenbai Yerzhanov. – Field Olympiad of young geologists gave the pupils an excellent opportunity to realize their knowledge into practice, to use all their theoretical knowledge on paleontology, petrography, mineralogy, hydrogeology, geology of mineral resources.
As a result of the competition in the team classification the first place took the team of “Rudny Altai” from Ust-Kamenogorsk, the second – “Akpan” (Aktobe), the third – “Atyrau”. Kyzylorda team “Adamas” in his debut season took the fifth place! None of the experts did not expect such a successful performance from the young geologists of Syr Land. In the list of our team were Islambayev Diaz, Kaymov Sanzhar, Aiguliyev Zhanibek, Ali Tilek, Azamat Mukhtar, Arman Pirmanov, Azimkhan Shansharkhan and Nurymzhan Sapar.

Public Relations department