The President of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) Rovnag Abdullayev met with the students of the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy, which were provided with the SOCAR scholarship, Trend reports with reference to the SOCAR Press Service.
According to Abdullayev, the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev charged the SOCAR to train high-professional staff. The SOCAR pays a great attention to the training of staff and successfully realizes the scholarship program. Presently 160 students of the Oil Academy receive the SOCAR scholarship.
This year the Academy presented the candidatures of 60 students to the consideration of the SOCAR Special Commission. SOCAR decided to present scholarship in amount of AZN 40 to 33 students. 16 of them are 3rd year and 17 the 2nd year students.