Alekperov Vagit Biography
Posted on 30. Nov, 2009 by admin in A - E, Alekperov Vagit
Vagit Alekperov was born in Baku on Sept. 1, 1950, in the green village of Razin. Son of Azerbaijani and Cossacks, he was the fifth child in the family. Father - Kerbalaevich Yusuf Alekperov worked in the oil industry, and Vahid followed in his footsteps. Father had almost forgotten: he was only three years, when 54-year-old Yusuf, past the Great Patriotic War, was no more.
Tatiana Fedorova, which Yusuf Alekperov met long before the war, stayed with the children alone. Vagit was the youngest in the family, which grew more than his three sisters and a brother Vagif. He was assiduous child is not fond of fun, the older sister literally push him out of the house to play. He was a good student at school, with 18-years went to work. The first page of his working career starts in the oil industry. In those years, Azerbaijan was the oil capital of the Union, the oil was saturated with the very atmosphere of the city, and there is nothing surprising in the fact that working career Vagit began drilling. Active, hard-working - the bosses were pretty.
Combining work with study, in 1974, he graduated from the Azerbaijan Oil and Chemistry, specializing in mining engineering technology and complex mechanization of oil and gas fields. The next five years - an example of a dizzying career: starting with the operator of the oil and gas in Kaspmornefti, it soon became a production engineer, then - shift supervisor, foreman, chief engineer and finally deputy chief of the oil field. How Vagit Alekperov managed in such a short time of rising to such high office? Life on the primitive oil platforms affected by the explosions, fires, storms and other catastrophes - tempers the character. In 1974, he worked on the rig, at the mouth of the well when the explosion occurred. Vagit thrown the 12-meter-high straight in the stormy waters of the Caspian Sea. Then, killing two workers. He swam out, the benefit of a child to swim better. Also tell us that once a few days Vagit Alekperov met on the platform in a stormy sea without water, food and salt, and survived.
He has always been a very purposeful person, to the same well versed in the people and knew how to please his superiors. Plus - had the power to be provided at the right time and place.
In 1979 such a place - a new, promising - has been in Western Siberia. The local field was just beginning to develop, there was a first sight, to show themselves. There, if you hurry up and right to lead it could make such a career and earn the money, which in Azerbaijan and beyond the norm. What, actually, Vagit Alekperov did. In Siberia, he went to the party suballocation permit. After working for five years on the leading lights in positions "Surgutneftegaz" and "Bashneft", in 1984, he pulled out his trump card. Senior executives, to whom Vagit Alekperov could always look fine fellow, felt that his candidacy like no other, is suitable for the post of general director of association "Kogalymneftegaz.
The general director of the new association (as in Kogalym at that time there was nothing but wagons, vans) - is, on the one hand, a huge responsibility: we must develop the field from scratch, and responsible for everything you personally. On the other hand, it is a lot of money that a country generously allocated on the Siberian oil industry, and does little limited power. Director of the field was in its territory by God, an autocrat, a judge, the father of the soldiers, plus some other incarnation. Among the legends surrounding his name and has a story - when the repairmen were afraid to approach the water pipe had burst (Any spark could cause an explosion) - Alekperov went to the pipe, sat down at her and ordered them to work. Now laborers at least know - in case of explosion of the head will perish together with them. What to say, if the director of the district Party secretary in person at the bow to come.
Heading Kogalymneftegaz, Alekperov zadruzhilsya with other local autocrat. The closest relationship is between him and general manager of Uraineftegaz "Alexander Putilov, and the head of" Langepasneftegas "Yuri Shafranik.
In my Kogalym Alekperov has developed a frenzied activity. He was noticed in January 1990 was transferred to Moscow, was appointed deputy minister of oil and gas industry in the USSR. Alekperov became the youngest Soviet state officers of that rank. The timing of entry into a new position, as it turned out, was extremely successful. General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev opened the doors to foreign investment, and Western oil companies began to make friends in Moscow. In 1990, when "British Petroleum" organized a visit of the Soviet oil industry in Britain, Alekperov was asked to pick up the delegation. Its leader, he appointed himself.
Felberg Rondo (Rondo Fehlberg), while one of the managers of BP, said later in an interview that during that trip Alekperov immediately took the debate into their own hands, stern voice asked the head of BP to explain how to create a modern oil company. When Felberg took guests from Moscow on one of the drilling BP, which create an incredible by Soviet standards, cleanliness and quietness, they were skeptical. They initially refused to believe that oil is extracted. Members of the delegation thought it was a western propaganda ploy. Representatives of BP was forced to touch the pipe with his hands, so they would feel like on them pumped oil.
Felberg said that the guests something quietly talking among themselves, until many years later, he realized why they had the kind of conspirators. Although up to the untimely demise of the Soviet Union still remained a year, Vagit Alekperov had planned to take control of major oil facilities collapsing country. At the time of his monthly salary would not be enough to pay for a business lunch.
And already in 1991, from just a deputy, he became the first deputy. In Siberia, joked that the post went to Vagit Alekperov to build communism in a particular city. By and large, in part it was true. Kogalym live richer and more comfortable other oil towns. There were no barracks, even the first time (Alekperov, immediately ordered the capital to build housing, no payment on a barter basis - only real money), an excellent supply (not that population was fed through the winter with fresh strawberries, but they were no apples you can buy it). Plus - large production gains, which are regularly reported to Moscow.
For such a vigil for the success of production add phenomenal capacity Vagit Alekperov, always and everywhere to find patronage, without which all of these achievements would not be worth a damn - and get a formula for success.
To learn exactly who patronize Alekperov at a time, opinions are still divided. Perhaps, then head of the ministry also released from the Siberian autocrats - Leonid Filimonov, before you get a ministerial portfolio, who had to work the director Nizhnevartovskneftegaz (after the restructuring, he became president of Eastern Oil Company).
In the former Soviet Union, as we know, oil production, refining and providing consumers with oil products was in charge of three different ministries. In this case each agency pursued its objectives, often do not coincide with the interests of subcontractors. All this led to the decline of many, not yet fully developed fields, decay drilling equipment and pipelines, imbalance and distortions in oil production.
In collaboration with Filimonov Alekperov, the father of the idea and developed a detailed scheme of the so-called vertical integration of oil companies - VINK (which later became the basis for his doctoral dissertation). It was suggested that all the companies on mining, processing and sale of oil to combine into a single holding company, ie organize production chain "from wellhead to gas station." Strictly speaking, nothing particularly new Alekperov with Filimonov not invented. The same scheme has long worked, for example, the Italian state oil concern ENI.