MEETING IN SOCAR
President of State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic, Rovnag Abdullayev, met a delegation headed by German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on 19 February.
SOCAR president informed the guests on ancient history of oil extracting in Azerbaijan. Touching upon development of Germany-Azerbaijan relationship, R. Abdullayev said oil industry plays an important role in this.
Foreign Minister Steinmeier said relationship between the two countries would have a new stage after Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev’s recent successful official visit to Germany.
Highly estimating the ties of SOCAR with some German companies in the field of oil production, refining and oil equipments, the German Minister noted that those would be strengthened after Aliyev’s visit to his country. “German companies acting in oil sector are interested in cooperation with SOCAR”, he added.
The sides exchanged views concerning further opportunities of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil and Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas pipelines for transportation of energy supplies to Europe.
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