Azerbaijan increases supplies of Russian gas
Yesterday, St. Petersburg hosted a working meeting between the chairman of the board of Gazprom, Alexey Miller, and the president of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), Rovnag Abdullayev. …
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Russian Gazprom plans to increase gas supplies to Azerbaijan
Today St. Petersburg hosted a working meeting of Chairman of the Board of PJSC Gazprom Alexey Miller and President of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) Rovnag Abdullayev. …
SOCAR starts paying compensation to families whose members were killed or missing at Guneshli
SOCAR has begun to pay out a one-time financial compensation of 15000 manats to families whose members were killed or went missed as a result of the fire at oil platform №10 in the Guneshli field, as …
SOCAR to close its foreign offices in some countries
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) will start closing its representative offices in those countries where SOCAR commercial divisions will be able to perform these functions from January 2016. The company's …
Iran interested in swap transactions with Azerbaijan
Iran is interested in the organization of swap transactions on oil products with Azerbaijan, the Iranian Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Mahmoud Vaezi, said. "The agreement enables …
Kakha Kaladze: Georgia sees Shah Deniz-2 as additional source of gas
Georgian Minister of Energy, Kakha Kaladze, said that the Azeri project Shah Deniz-2 is very important for Tbilisi, as it is an additional source of gas for the country. The minister added that Georgia is currently …
Four Guneshli gas wells still burning
According to recent data, voiced by the Ministry of Ecology of Azerbaijan, the fire on two gas wells at Platform №10 at the Guneshli oil field was extinguished, but still continues on other four wells. The deputy director of the …
Gunashli fire doesn't cause serious oil spills
Environmental monitoring conducted today near the Gunashli and Oil Rocks offshore fields in the Caspian Sea didn’t reveal any serious oil spills, SOCAR said on its website. “The monitoring is being held using specially …
Azerbaijan expands search area for missing oil workers
The search for 26 SOCAR oil workers who went missing as a result of the accident on December 4th will be conducted in all sectors of the Caspian Sea, the operational staff of SOCAR’s Azneft production association said. The …
First phase of work on extinguishing fire at Guneshli completed
The first phase of the work on extinguishing the fire at Platform №10 at the Guneshli oil field has been completed, the Minister of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Kemaleddin Heydarov, said. He noted that the fire ...
SOCAR prevents oil spill at Guneshli
SOCAR has managed to prevent an ecological disaster in the form of an oil spill from a well of the burning Platform №10 at the Guneshli field, a source in the ...
Bank of Baku writes off credit debts of dead and missing at Guneshli
Bank of Baku has written off all the credit debts of eleven oil workers who died or went missing in the fire accident on platform №10 at the Guneshli oil field, the press service of the bank said. The decision was made to support the …
Production at SOCAR emergency platform stopped
SOCAR has stopped production at the emergency platform №10 at Azerbaijan’s Guneshli oil field in order to ease firefighting, the chief engineer of SOCAR’s Azneft production association, Balamirza Aliragimov, said. …
Search operation at Guneshli suspended due to storm
None of the 26 missing SOCAR employees have been found today (23 at the Guneshli field and 3 at the Oil Rocks), the head of the press service of SOCAR Nizamaddin Guliyev informed a press …
Foreign experts join firefighting operation at Guneshli
The chief engineer of SOCAR’s Azneft production association, Balamirza Aliragimov, said that the fire has weakened, but the firefighting operation is continuing. The foreign experts managed to get to the …
Khoshbakht Yusifzade: Their last words were: "Save us!''
First vice-president of SOCAR on the tragedy at the Guneshli oil platform in the Caspian Sea
Additional forces involved in extinguishing fire at Guneshli platform
The firefighting operation is continuing at platform №10 at Azerbaijan’s Guneshli oil field of SOCAR (State Oil Company of Azerbaijan). Two additional crane vessels are involved in the process, the chief engineer of PO Azneft state ...
SOCAR uses additional means to eliminate fire at Guneshli
The chief engineer of SOCAR’s Azneft production association, Balamirza Aliragimov, said that the fire on the offshore platform has spread to some wells
Dead bodies of 6 Guneshli workers found
The dead bodies of six oil workers have been recovered as a result of the search operation carried out by Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Emergency Situations. The dead bodies of Fuad Taghiyev and Aga Mahmudov have already been brought ashore, …
Search continues for missing as fire is not yet extinguished on Guneshli platform
The fates of 29 missing oil workers after the fire on the platform in the Guneshli oil field still remain unknown, the chief engineer of SOCAR’s Azneft production association, Balamirza Aliragimov ...
