Engineer: I’m a mechanical engineer at a gas pipeline construction site.
R.: As I can judge, your speciality is very important now when the amount of extracted gas has increased so greatly, isn’t it?
E.: Oh, yes, it is. You are right, gas transportation and storage is of great importance.
R.: What problems face you?
E.: To my mind the most urgent one is mechanization and automation of pipe-line construction.
Dialogue 2
Student: Where do you work?
Engineer: I work at a bulk plant near Ufa. You see, while being a student I was interested in oil storage. My graduation paper deals with this problem.
S.: I think it’s a very interesting problem!
E.: By the way, what are you?
S.: I’m a student of the Petroleum University. Now I specialize in pipeline designing and in a year I’ll be a petroleum engineer.
E.: Where will you work after graduating from the University?
S.: As a rule our specialists work at oil refineries or research institutes.
22. Английский юмор:
A good student
Professor: Can you tell me anything about the great scientists of the 17th century?