Alexander the Great’s (356-323 BC) fighters used oil exported from Absheron...

Science has shown that people were aware of such natural resources as oil...

Arab traveler Ahmad Al-Balazuri indicated in his book “Invasion of Countries”...

Al-Biruni mentioned Baku very briefly: “Baku is a white oil field”

The Italian Marco Polo (1254 - 1324) who had visited China...

According to the Iranian historian Amin Ahmad ar-Razi...

The Moscow Company, founded in London sent its oil trade...

According to an inscription discovered on a stone in one of the oil wells...

The employee and doctor of Russia’s embassy in Iran, Ioann Lerkh visited Baku...

For the first time in the world, Haji Kasymbek Mansurbekov from Baku...

Nikolay Voskoboynikov’s oil refinery was launched in Balakhani...

Following the proposal made by the member of the Head office of Transcaucasia...

Industrially valuable oil was for the first time in history produced from wells drilled...

Dubinin brothers’ large oil refinery was launched in Baku...

Transportation of oil in wooden barges started...

Foreign capital flow into Azerbaijani oil industry commenced, resulting the emerge of a generation of local businessmen

A deep well pump was applied for the first time...

the worlds first metal hull oil tanker “Zoroastr” was built and used for transporting white oil...

The construction of the railroad connecting oil fields with refineries was started...

The Baku-Batumi segment of the TransCaucasian railroad was put to use in May

On May 16, brothers Alphonse and Edmond Rotschild founded the Caspian and Black Sea Oil Industry and...

The auger stem method was for the first time applied...

For the first time in the history of the oil industry, the engineer G.V.Alekseyev developed...

Under pressure cementing the oil wells was...

For the first time in the world, V Shukhov and S.Gavrilov devised...

For the first time in the world, the double decked Assan Dadashov oil tanker was launched

In terms of the absolute volume of extracted oil, the Baku oil industry...

11 mln. tons of crude oil – 51,5% (!!!) of the world...

Producing 11.5 million tons of oil, Azerbaijan ranked world's top oil producer

In November, the Emanuel Nobel (1859 - 1932) Prize was introduced in Baku...

For the first time in the world, the compressor application...

The rotary drilling method was used in Surakhani oil fields of Baku

Professor M.M.Tikhvinski developed a new method of oil extraction...

Testing of the gas lift operation method...

On November 13, the Azerbaijan Polytechnic Institute (currently Azerbaijan State Oil Academy) was established

The nationalization of the oil industry has been a turning point for the oil production of Azerbaijan

The publishing of the “Azerbaijan Oil Industry” journal started

Worlds first well (Well N 71), built on wooden piles in the Bibiheybat Bay

The “repeated well operation” method based on the injection of water...

In Baku, Vladimir Shukhov, Matvey Kapelyushnikov and Fatullabey Rustambayov...

For the first time, electric logging and measuring of the degree of inclination...

Pirallahi island

Baku Oil Industry

Seismic data and the results

Pioneering the development of offshore drilling industry, Azerbaijan accelerated its offshore geological oil prospecting works

Hydro-technical complex

In late 1960s, 8 new oil and natural gas fields were discovered, doubling the oil and tripling the natural gas resources in Azerbaijan

Caspianseaoil Production Union (Hazardenizneft Istehsalat Birligi) (IB) was founded

By the initiative of the all-national leader of the Azerbaijan people, Heydar Aliyev...

Azerbaijan

The total volume of oil and natural gas production reached 27.1 million tons

Professor Bahadir Zeynalov

With the effect of the works and technical improvements of the past decade

The Deep Water Jackets Plant was constructed and launched in Baku

Chirag

Restoration of independancy for the Republic of Azerbaijan

The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic

The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic

SOCAR, the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic

The strategic agreement, referred to as “The Contract of the Century”,

Development Agreement for the Shahdeniz

The Baku-Novorossiysk Northern Export Pipeline was put to service

The Baku-Supsa Western Export Pipeline was put to service

Azerbaijan Republic State Oil Fund (SOFAZ) was founded to collect the oil revenue under a single fund.

Having acquired Azerigaz Inc. that handles Azerbaijan’s gas distribution and Azerikimya State Company

On May 28, first oil reached the Ceyhan port through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Main Export Pipeline

First time gas was exported from Azerbaijan

The Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum “South Caucasian Gas Pipeline” was put to service

First time gas was exported from Azerbaijan

Since 2008, SOCAR carries out oil and oil products trade with SOCAR Trading based in Switzerland

Undertaking another giant project, SOCAR signed an agreement with Korean National Oil Corporation

On June 26, the President of the Azerbaijan Republic, Ilham Aliyev

With the acquisition of ESSO, SOCAR started to distribute fuel in Europe

On September 20th a solemn ceremony to mark the 20th anniversary of the Contract of the Century and lay the foundation of the Southern Gas Corridor was held at the Heydar Aliyev Centre.

The “Contract of the Century” Extended to 2050...

STAR Refinery, the giant investment by SOCAR, inaugurated...

The first naphtha produced by STAR Refinery was delivered to Petkim...