OREANDA-NEWS. August 5, 2011. SOCAR has founded the Department of Training, Education & Certification. The new department will be functioning on the material and technical basis of the Training, Education and Certification Division of the Social Development Department and Training Center for Life Safety at Sea of the Caspian Sea Oil Fleet. The newly established department will be engaged in the training of highly skilled personnel based on contracts for oil and other sectors of industry, specialty training in accordance with international standards, organizing high-quality courses to meet needs of industry and society, providing methodological and technical services on the theoretical bases of international standards and certification and other issues. Fuad Suleymanov was appointed the head of the Department.