President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received Chief Executive Officer of BP Tony Hayward.
The Azerbaijani President praised the cooperation between the country and the company, describing it as longstanding and successful. President Ilham Aliyev expressed confidence the bilateral cooperation would continue to expand.
Tony Hayward also stressed BP`s successful cooperation with the Azerbaijani government and the country's state oil firm, SOCAR. The BP CEO emphasized the importance of the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli and Shahdeniz oil and gas projects, as well as the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan and South Caucasus oil pipeline projects both for Azerbaijan, the region and the global energy markets.
Full operation of the Shahdeniz was described as one of the significant projects for Azerbaijan and BP.

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