bp announces new appointments in AGT leadership

bp announced two new Azerbaijan-Georgia-Türkiye (AGT) leadership team member appointments, Report informs.

Chingiz Hajiyev will take on the role of vice-president of business development Caspian effective January 2025, based in Baku.

In his new role Hajiyev will be a member of bp’s global oil and gas business development leadership team, reporting to Andy McAuslan, vice president and head of business development, oil & gas. He will specifically focus on bp’s AGT regional business and will represent business development function on the AGT regional leadership team.

Currently, Chingiz Hajiyev is seconded to bp's Incorporated Joint Venture in Iraq (BECL) as chief financial officer for the Rumaila Operating Organization.

Hajiyev joined bp in 1998 and worked in a wide range of commercial and financial roles, including business development manager for Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli, business development manager for AGT new access, and Shah Deniz area planning and commercial manager.

Hajiyev holds a master’s degree from the University of Warwick and a bachelor’s degree from the Azerbaijan State University of Economy.

Chingiz Hajiyev is married and has two children.

Stuart Shaw will take on the role of vice president, of production for the Azerbaijan, Georgia, Türkiye (AGT) region effective 2 December 2024. In this role Stuart will replace Elkhan Mammadov who will move to bp’s London offices as senior vice president responsible for managing bp’s global upstream production activities.

In his new role Stuart Shaw will become a member of the AGT regional business leadership team.

Shaw currently serves as vice president of production, integration and transformation in the bp central team. His key responsibilities include designing and implementing the production strategy, leading the central production management unit, and driving base management and production excellence across bp’s global portfolio.

Shaw joined bp in 1998 and has since held a variety of operational and base production management roles across the North Sea, Alaska and Egypt. In addition to holding core operational leadership roles such as offshore installation manager and operations manager, Shaw has also led strategic transformation programmes and overseen the safe and efficient start-up of several bp major projects in the North Sea and Egypt. Prior to his current role, Stuart Shaw was vice president, production for North Africa.

He has a master’s degree from the University of Manchester.

Stuart Shaw is married and has two young children.