Forecasted reserves are equal to 10 bln tones, said the President of State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Rovnag Abdullayev at the meeting with young oilers on the occasion of the Day of Youths. Abdullayev noted that within the State Program on studying of Azerbaijani youths abroad, studying of 202 youths in foreign countries such as US, Great Britain, Germany, France, Norway, Canada, Turkey, Austria, Sweden, Russia, Malta were financed: “130 of the mare working in SOCAR, 72 – studying. More than 10,00 students participated in the contests on granting of scholarships of SOCAR and 1,258 students received scholarships”.
Abdullayev noted that the number of youths working in SOCAR has increased by 1.7 times since 2005.