Azeri SOCAR plans to set up university
BAKU – Azerbaijan`s national oil company SOCAR is considering to establish a university to prepare high-level oil experts, the company’s president, Rovnag Abdullayev, has said.
According to him, the university will be located in the Bibiheybat settlement of Baku where the first-ever Azerbaijani oil field is based.
Abdullayev said talks were underway with the leading universities in Houston and Aberdeen to prepare the curriculum.
He also said that major oil refineries, petrochemicals and gas chemistry facilities will be built outside Baku in the coming years. In the industrial town of Sumgayit, 30 km north of the capital, a chemistry technopark is to be set up, which will allow to open 10,000 jobs. Also, 3,000 people will be provided with jobs after a carbamide plant is constructed in Sumgayit.
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