Over 15,000 jobs were created as a part of the Shah Deniz-2 project operated by BP company, Bakhtiyar Aslanbeyli, BP Regional Vice President for International Relationships and Strategy, said yesterday in Baku during the I Azerbaijani CSR Conference-2015 “Stable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility.”
He said the foundation for development of any company is its business activity and investments into the future and BP is proud of supporting several development fields in Azerbaijan.
“At present BP is operator of the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli, Shah Deniz and Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan projects, which employ 2900 Azerbaijani citizens. Majority of them work in Baku, but I would like to mention that Azerbaijani specialists also work in the US, UK and other countries. BP has created over 15,000 jobs on various sites as a part of the Shah-Deniz-2 project, which is worth $28 billion,” Aslanbeyli said.
BP Regional Vice President said that in the future the company will continue investing into development of local personnel.—0—
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