Goran Anđušić, Technology Policy Product Manager at the STC, has won an award at the recently held Gazprom Group OMS Successful Practices Fair.
Goran got an award in the Equipment Reliability category for a proposed redesign of sucker rod protectors at the Zrenjanin Mechanical Workshop. This practice lowers the price of sucker rod protector manufacturing by 30 per cent and reduces well workover time by ensuring faster installation of sucker rods. Additionally, the degree of safety of the operation of underground production equipment increases and the possibility of damaging protectors in the course of handling and transport decreases by 50 per cent.
Ognjen Trbuk and Goran Anđušić
Goran said it took him just 10 seconds to realise what needed to be changed in the existing technical solution, but the path to manufacturing the first test pieces was much longer and more demanding. After a trial period and successful well implementation, it was decided that this exact type of sucker rod protector would be made at our company in the future.
To be honest, I never expected to get the award. Given the strong competition, I was quite surprised. I have to admit that it feels really good that my idea was selected as the best one in the Equipment Reliability category and took the second place in the overall Fair ranking.
Ognjen Trbuk, OMS Project Office Director, who represented the Company at the Practices Fair, received the award on Goran’s behalf. He said that the Gazprom Group initiated the Fair a few years ago with a desire that the best and most successful practices and ideas be shared among different organisational units of the Group, thus improving communication, efficiency and involvement of the employees. Moreover, the best practices stay within the Group and organisational units get to ‘purchase’ interesting and applicable ideas. -The Fair gathered around 40 different organisational units, whose employees proposed or ‘purchased’ practices. There were two categories in the competition: Organisational and IT and Technical and Technological Practices, with practices being rated against four criteria and impacts: safety, reliability, involvement and efficiency, Ognjen said.