NEW WELL DRILLED IN GUNASHLI FIELD

23.10.2008 [10:18]
New well was drilled in the Caspian by Bayil Limani Offshore Exploration Drilling Unit through the platform № 431 in Gunashli field. The well will be put into ...

SOCAR ANNOUNCES TENDER FOR REBCO CRUDE EXPORT

21.10.2008 [21:58]
The Department of Marketing and Economic Operations of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) has announced a tender for export of 600,000 barrels of the Russian Export Blend Crude Oil (REPCO) fron ...

NEW ZEALAND`S SUMATO ENERGY GROUP WINS TENDER FOR EXPORT OF AZERBAIJANI CRUDE

21.10.2008 [14:46]
New Zealand`s Sumato Energy Group has won Azerbaijani State Oil Company’s (SOCAR) tender for 1 million barrels of Azeri Light crude. The SOCAR earlier announced a tender for export of this year` shipment of “Azeri Light” crude oil ...

BTC PIPELINE TO BEGIN OIL EXPORT OF KAZAKH OIL WITHIN NEXT FEW DAYS

19.10.2008 [17:51]
Baku-Tbiilsi-Ceyhan oil pipeline will start transporting oil extracted from Kazakh Tengiz field within the next few days. Tankers will deliver oil from port of Aktau to Azerbaijan. Kazakh oil is scheduled to be loaded onto tankers in the Ceyhan terminal in ...

AZERBAIJAN TO SELL ITS GAS DIRECTLY TO OTHER COUNTRIES

19.10.2008 [16:33]
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic will sign a new deal with Turkey to transport natural gas to Europe. Under the deal, Azerbaijan will sell gas directly to Greece and other European countries next year. Turkey currently sells to Greece gas bought from ...

TRANSPORTATION VIA GAS AND OIL PIPELINES RISE IN JANUARY- SEPTEMBER

19.10.2008 [15:59]
Oil pipelines hauled 34.7 million tons of crude over the past nine months of 2008, according to the State Stats Committee. Four third of oil was transported via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan export pipeline. Transportation via the oil pipelines increased 19.8 percent ...

SHIPS OF CASPIAN OIL FLEET RECEIVE ORDERS FROM ABROAD

16.10.2008 [15:49]
The replenishment ships of the Caspian Oil Fleet “Aura”, “Andoga” and “V. Seyidov” taken on lease by Caspian Marine Service Alliance, received an order to deliver a drilling machine named after Heydar Aliyev to Yalama deposit. The drilling machine will carry out appropriate ...

A PART OF BAHAR–HOVSAN-SURAKHANY GAS PIPELINE LAUNCHED

15.10.2008 [14:09]
A 20-inch Bahar-Hovsan-Surakhany gas pipeline is SOCAR’s main exhaust gas pipeline of 2008. A 32-kilometer Bahar-Hovsan section of the gas pipeline is expected to be laid offshore, while 12-km Hovsan-Surakhany section will be onshore. The pipe-lay ...

OIL PRODUCTION FROM WESTERN AZERI PLATFORM RESUMED

13.10.2008 [18:03]
bp Azerbaijan has resumed oil production from Western Azeri production platform of Azeri Chirag Guneshli oil field. As for launching the Central Azeri platform, the ...

US SPECIAL ENVOY FOR EURASIAN ENERGY ISSUES: THE NABUCCO PIPELINE WILL EVENTUALLY BE BUILT

11.10.2008 [19:12]
The U.S. special envoy for Eurasian energy issues, C. Boyden Gray, told Friday reporters in Rome that the Nabucco pipeline, which would deliver gas from Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and other Central Asian through Turkey while bypassing Russia, will "eventually" be built ...

REFURBISHMENT OF ‘ISRAFIL HUSEYNOV’ PIPE-LAY SHIP REMAINS ON SCHEDULE

11.10.2008 [15:26]
The “Israfil Huseynov” ship, the biggest pipe-lay vessel in the Caspian, has been temporarily taken out of service for refurbishment for the first time over the past seven years, State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) said ...

SUSPENDED BP AZERI PLATFORM OPERATING

11.10.2008 [13:19]
As stated, the BP-led group resumed oil production at one of its two Azeri offshore platforms shut after a gas leak in September, BP Azerbaijan said on Friday. "Oil production at Western Azeri was resumed late Thursday," the Company said ...

FUEL GAS EXPORT TARGET OUTSTRIPPED

11.10.2008 [11:17]
SOCAR exported 16, 15 thousand tons of fuel gas in September, 2008. Fuel gas export made up 134, 92 thousand in January-September 2008. It is by 21,5 percent more than that of the ...

KAZAKHSTAN TO START OIL EXPORT VIA BAKU-TIBILISI-CEYHAN OIL PIPELINE

10.10.2008 [19:37]
Oil from Kazakhstan`s Tengiz field will be exported via Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan main oil pipeline in mid October. Kazakh oil will be loaded onto the ...

NEW OIL WELL PUT INTO OPERATION IN JAFARLI FIELD

10.10.2008 [17:00]
Gobustan Exploration and Drilling Department of the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) put into operation a 37th, 3987-meter deep oil well with the capacity of 22 tons per day drilled at the Jafarli Oil Filed, SOCAR press service announced ...

TOCA WINS BAKU OIL MUSEUM`s DESIGN PROJECT CONCEPT COMPETITION

09.10.2008 [21:39]
Turkish company TOCA has been announced a winner of the competition for design-project concept of Baku Oil Museum at the final meeting of the selection commission ...

BP TO FLOW KAZAKH OIL THROUGH BTC PIPELINE

09.10.2008 [21:22]
BP PLC plans to begin shipping oil from Kazakhstan`s Tengiz oil field via the 1,770-km Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline ...

TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER OF SOCAR TO CO-OP WITH JAPAN’S JCCP

09.10.2008 [13:39]
Training and Educational Center of SOCAR held a meeting with representatives of JCCP Training Center of Japan. The purpose of the meeting was to invite experts of SOCAR to participate in trainings for raising the ...

BP ANNOUNCES YOUNG TALENT RECRUITMENT PROGRAM FOR PRODUCTION AND MAINTENANCE TECHNICIANS

08.10.2008 [19:11]
BP as the operator of oil and gas projects in Azerbaijan is pleased to announce the recruitment campaign for specialists with technical background to join BP as Production or Maintenance Technician Trainees in 2009. Successful applicants will initially undergo an ...