OREANDA-NEWS. May 30, 2016. Mr. Helmut Schuster, BP Executive Vice President, Group Human Resources Director, visited Baku Higher Oil School (BHOS) being on a business trip in Baku. He met with BHOS professors and students. In his welcome address, BHOS Rector Elmar Gasimov informed the guest about the higher school. He drew attention to the fact that established in compliance with the order of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, BHOS became one of the leading higher educational institutions in the country. Elmar Gasimov stressed that education and training of specialists was realized in line with petroleum engineering, chemical engineering and process automation engineering programmes. BHOS Rector said that the slogan “We should turn oil capital into human one” had already been proved. He made known that the knowledge offered by BHOS with the combination of science and practice would enable students to start the career path in national and international companies, being impetus for advancing in global market competition.

Mr. Helmut Schuster, BP Executive Vice President, Group Human Resources Director expressed his contentment in being at BHOS saying that the goal of his current visit was to make acquaintance with local BP team and activities connected with human resources in the region. He pointed out the significance of human resources for every company and focused on one of the projects oriented to the nationalization “BP specialists’ support for BHOS”. The guest expressed his confidence that cooperation between BP AGT and BHOS as an integral part of commitment of BP to the government concerning nationalization strategy and local students’ engineering progress would be a great success.

Mr. Schuster answered students’ questions and noted the brightness of BHOS students. BHOS Rector Elmar Gasimov granted honorary guest diploma to Mr. Schuster.