Elman Seyidov

Elman Seyidov was appointed as the GL Group’s Senior Vice-President for Operations in Azerbaijan in October, 2024.

Elman brings with him a wide experience in managing safe, reliable, and cost-effective operations. He has extensive strategic and tactical experience in Operations Leadership in production operations working in very challenging and sophisticated environments. Elman is a qualified Mechanical Engineer, with over 30 years of various technical industry experiences. During the last 18 plus years, Elman worked for bp in Azerbaijan in a number of Technical and Leadership positions including, but not limited to, Shah Deniz Area Operations Manager, Azeri Area Operations Manager, Regional Production Manager, with his last position as a Regional Sub-Sea Operations Manager. On top of this extensive experience, Elman has also worked for bp in the North Sea.

Elman had held the following positions:

• bp Azeri-Chirag-Deepwater Gunashli Subsea Operations Manager. His responsibilities included managing complex Subsea systems and equipment operation with the interface of it with entire Subsea Wells/pipelines and top side Operations.
• Area Operations Manager for Shad Deniz and Azeri Area in bp Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey Region. Managed a big operation organization and a number of offshore oil and gas
  platforms and associated different function support in a safe and reliable way.
• Production Manager for bp Azeri-Chirag-Deepwater Gunashli. Managed a technical forecast
  of production and planned it with a focus on timely delivery and played the key role for communications with partners and the ministry.
• Offshore Installation Manager in bp Caspian. Was responsible for safe and reliable operations and managed an offshore Logistic and Drilling operation and associated risks and mitigations.

Elman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering for oil and gas field equipment.