Dr. Vitaliy Baylarbayov

Deputy Vice President for Integrated Gas Segment

SOCAR

Vitaliy Baylarbayov is the Deputy Vice-President of SOCAR. Dr. Baylarbayov has over 30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry and holds a PhD in Economics. He is a member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators and has held executive positions in the negotiations and management of a number of major oil and gas projects, including the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli oilfields, the Shah Deniz gas/condensate field, the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, and the Southern Gas Corridor Projects – the expansion of the South Caucasus Pipeline and the establishment of the Trans-Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP) and the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP). V. Baylarbayov heads the Southern Gas Corridor Gas Value Chain Integration Team, is a Chairman of the board of SOCAR-UNIPER LLC, Chairman of BoD of the South Caucasus Pipeline Company Ltd., Chairman of BoD of SOCAR Midstream Gas Operations LLC, Director of the Azerbaijan Gas Supply Company – AGSC, a marketing vehicle of the Shah Deniz Consortium and Managing Director of SOCAR Gas Operating Company. In 2025 V. Baylarbayov was elected to the Executive Committee of the International Gas Union-worldwide organisation representing the global gas value chain in over 80 countries.