BHGE working with Azerbaijan's leading companies to drive better returns, enhance production (Exclusive)

Exclusive interview of Trend with Tommy Kassem, Vice-President for Oil Field Services, Russia-Caspian, Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE).

 

Operations in Azerbaijan

 

As a leading supplier of oil and gas equipment and services for exploration, drilling, production, transportation, liquefaction, compression, processing and storage for some of the most challenging onshore and offshore Caspian projects, including Shah Deniz, Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli, Absheron, and TANAP - we have been present in Azerbaijan since 1990s.
Today, we have 4 businesses in Azerbaijan or 4 Product Companies, as we call them at BHGE: Oilfield Services (OFS), Oilfield Equipment (OFE), Turbomachinery and Process Solutions (TPS) and Digital Solutions (DS), comprised of Measurement and Controls, as well as BHGE’s Digital business. BHGE is a proud partner of the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), as well as BP, TOTAL, Equinor, Caspian Drilling Company. We operate with our customers across all Product Companies both in simple operations, such as regular field, or in more challenging offshore operations.
As part of ongoing investments and interest at this strategic region, BHGE recently inaugurated its new office in the center of Baku and established it as its regional hub for the OFS business in Russia and Caspian region. Today, more than 300 employees work overall at BHGE in Azerbaijan and more than 90 percent of the staff is local.
We continue to partner with local universities, such as Baku Higher Oil School, Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University to provide a variety of trainings and programs to both our employees and students of these universities. In addition to existing leadership programs, we have successfully launched Internship program this month, focusing on hiring 8 interns for Pressure Pumping and Completion product lines. Our goal is to support the development of a new generation of experienced and qualified professionals to achieve the desired successes in the oil and gas sector.