In the 1970-1980s, the ranks of highly qualified specialists in the oil and gas industry of our country were replenished with graduates from the Turkmen Polytechnic Institute (now the Turkmen State Institute of Architecture and Civil Engineering), located in Ashgabat. One of them is Akmuhammet Ashirov, an experienced specialist who devoted forty years of his fruitful life, or rather, his entire working career, to work at various organizations and enterprises of the gas industry of our country. His youth fell on the years of the rapid development of the Eastern