Within the past five years, the oil and gas sector has had 258 scientific research projects and more than 1,400 initiatives, in which, 739 are technical advances and inventions, generating more than US$52 million and VND380 million.
Mr Nguyen Tat Hoan and a group of authors received the first prize of the creativeness contest of the oil and gas sector in 2009 - 2010
During a recent meeting with staff of Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province’s oil and gas sector, Chairman of the Vietnam Federation of Labour Dang Ngoc Tung highly appreciated the sector’s trade union.
No need to hire foreign experts
One of the most outstanding examples for the outstanding and creative labour movement of the oil and gas sector is Tran Nhat Huy, Director of Ca Mau Gas Company. Before taking this position, Mr Huy experienced six other positions, including technology engineer and shift manager. He also directly chairs or are authors of nearly 20 technical and management initiatives. The initiative "Building hydrocarbon dewpoint software and minimum fuel gas reduction method for Water Bath Heater at GDC" helps to save around US$100,000-150,000 annually.
Despite working in the oil and gas sector for just five years, Bui Duc Viet, a technical officer from Binh Son Refining And Petrochemical Company Limited studied operation condition of CCR workshop and the formula of gas mixture to raise the efficiency of commercial gas return of Dung Quat Oil Refinery. This has helped to bring the sector around VND200 billion per year.
According to Director Tran Nhat Huy, the work love, patience and responsibility are the most important factors. He said, without these, each person often easily accepts simple and normal solutions to the situation of the system but does not have requirement for improvements to enhance working efficiency. Besides, many young people in the oil and gas sector shared that they want to take initiatives to deal with the problems so that they do not need to hire foreign experts.
Many outstanding labourers will help to form a solidarity team with active movements. Every year, staff and mangers of PetroVietnam has around 20 recognised initiatives, 100 initiatives and improvements applied in production activities. Over the past five years, the Initiative Council of Petrovietnam Fertilizer and Chemicals Joint Stock Company has recognised nearly 200 initiatives, contributing to increase revenues of hundreds of billions of Vietnamese dong annually.
Trade unions as an important factor
Initiatives and labour creativeness have helped oil and gas labourers to receive sci-technology prices both inside and outside the country, which also have the trade union’s contributions. Many units in the trade union and specialised agencies build regulations to encourage labourers to work out solutions to enhance work efficiency, in which, leaders is always an outstanding example in labour and production activities. Many initiatives are applied in production sector with far-reaching impacts.
Annually, the trade union of the Vietnamese oil and gas sector closely cooperates with leaders of PetroVietnam to usually hold movements, particularly movements of key projects and works such as Dung Quat Oil Refinery, Nghi Son Oil Refinery and Thai Binh 2 Thermal Power Plant.
Trade unions of different levels have paid more attention to encouraging labourers to join movements so that more than 72,000 labourers in the sector can show their love for work, including 1,300 post-graduates, 16,500 graduating from universities and colleges, more than 3,700 people graduating from vocational training universities and 13,500 manual workers.
One of the lessons in successfully holding creative labour movements of the Vietnamese oil and gas sector’s trade union is defining that the movements are public characteristics. Unlike scientific research works, creative labour requires scholarly understanding which mostly originates from real demands that labourers often see during their production activities, therefore, they often easily take part in. Therefore, close cooperation between trade unions of different levels under the Party leadership are the leading factor to ensure the success of the movement.
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