State Oil Fund of the Republic of Azerbaijan announces the best analytic article competitionfor journalists on topic “Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and Azerbaijan”

Awards:

1st place - 1000 manat

2nd place - 700 manat

3rd place - 300 manat

Terms of the competition:

Subject of the article should cover EITI activities in Azerbaijan.

The participant of the competition should have minimum two years of experience in journalism and must be contributor to local media.

The participants of the competition can submit the following documents by February 15, 2012 to the Public Relations Office of SOFAZ from 10 am to 6 pm every working day:

1. Filled and APPLICATION FORMavailable at www.oilfund.az;

2. Document confirming the journalist as contributor to the media;

3. Copy of the issue of the article as published in local or international media from November 17, 2011 to February 10, 2012;

The article should bear following sentence on top of it: "This material is prepared for the best analytic article competitionfor journalists on topic “EITI and Azerbaijan” announced by the State Oil Fund of the Republic of Azerbaijan”

The results of the competition will be announced after February 15, 2012.

Board of experts:

Feyzulla Muradov – Deputy Director of the Investment and the Reconstruction of Industrial Objects division of the Ministry of Industry and Energy of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Mehriban Vezir - writer and publicist, member of the Coalition for Improving Transparency in Extractive Industries

Nizameddin Quliyev - Head of the press service and public relations division of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic

Any information on the EITI can be obtained from the Public Relations Office of SOFAZ.

Contact:

Tel: 498 7753 (internal 144)

e-mail: pr@oilfund.az