From now on SOCAR and migration service to jointly control employment of foreign residents in Azerbaijan

Last evening the event “Nationalization in Oil and Gas Industry and Migration Regulation” was organized by State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) and BP-Azerbaijan companies jointly with the State Migration Service in Fairmont Baku hotel.

SOCAR President Rovnag Abdullayev, Firudin Nabiyev, chief of the State Migration Service, Gordon Birrell, BP President in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, and other officials took part at the event.

The protocol of cooperation on nationalization of employees was the first document signed by SOCAR President and BP-Azerbaijan President.

The second document was the memorandum of mutual understanding on cooperation in field of training at the Training Centre in Gobustan between SOCAR and BP.

The memorandum of mutual understanding on education at the Baku High Oil School was signed by Gordon Birrell and Elmar Gasymov, the Baku High Oil School rector.

The fourth document – mutual understanding on cooperation in the migration field – was planned to be signed between BP-Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijan State Migration Service. However, the representatives of the Migration Service have refused to sign the document at the last minute.

From 2014 to 2018 BP company will carry out wide-scale works in Azerbaijan as a part of the Shah-Deniz Phase 2 project. The qualified specialists will be needed to perform these works in time. BP and its main contractors usually hire foreign specialists for these works. However, SOCAR has already created a specialized automated personnel data base. If the foreign companies need specialists, they will first have to use the data base. If Azerbaijan lacks certain specialists, then  the foreign company with the recommendation letter on behalf of SOCAR will apply to the State Migration Service to get permission for foreign resident’s employment in the country.—0—