Alexander the Great’s (356-323 BC) fighters used oil exported from Absheron...
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Science has shown that people were aware of such natural resources as oil...
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Arab traveler Ahmad Al-Balazuri indicated in his book “Invasion of Countries”...
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Al-Biruni mentioned Baku very briefly: “Baku is a white oil field”
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The Italian Marco Polo (1254 - 1324) who had visited China...
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According to the Iranian historian Amin Ahmad ar-Razi...
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The Moscow Company, founded in London sent its oil trade...
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According to an inscription discovered on a stone in one of the oil wells...
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The employee and doctor of Russia’s embassy in Iran, Ioann Lerkh visited Baku...
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For the first time in the world, Haji Kasymbek Mansurbekov from Baku...
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Nikolay Voskoboynikov’s oil refinery was launched in Balakhani...
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Following the proposal made by the member of the Head office of Transcaucasia...
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Industrially valuable oil was for the first time in history produced from wells drilled...
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Dubinin brothers’ large oil refinery was launched in Baku...
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Transportation of oil in wooden barges started...
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Foreign capital flow into Azerbaijani oil industry commenced, resulting the emerge of a generation of local businessmen
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A deep well pump was applied for the first time...
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the worlds first metal hull oil tanker “Zoroastr” was built and used for transporting white oil...
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The construction of the railroad connecting oil fields with refineries was started...
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The Baku-Batumi segment of the TransCaucasian railroad was put to use in May
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On May 16, brothers Alphonse and Edmond Rotschild founded the Caspian and Black Sea Oil Industry and...
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The auger stem method was for the first time applied...
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For the first time in the history of the oil industry, the engineer G.V.Alekseyev developed...
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For the first time in the world, V Shukhov and S.Gavrilov devised...
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For the first time in the world, the double decked Assan Dadashov oil tanker was launched
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In terms of the absolute volume of extracted oil, the Baku oil industry...
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11 mln. tons of crude oil – 51,5% (!!!) of the world...
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Producing 11.5 million tons of oil, Azerbaijan ranked world's top oil producer
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In November, the Emanuel Nobel (1859 - 1932) Prize was introduced in Baku...
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For the first time in the world, the compressor application...
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The rotary drilling method was used in Surakhani oil fields of Baku
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Professor M.M.Tikhvinski developed a new method of oil extraction...
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On November 13, the Azerbaijan Polytechnic Institute (currently Azerbaijan State Oil Academy) was established
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The nationalization of the oil industry has been a turning point for the oil production of Azerbaijan
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The publishing of the “Azerbaijan Oil Industry” journal started
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Worlds first well (Well N 71), built on wooden piles in the Bibiheybat Bay
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The “repeated well operation” method based on the injection of water...
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In Baku, Vladimir Shukhov, Matvey Kapelyushnikov and Fatullabey Rustambayov...
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For the first time, electric logging and measuring of the degree of inclination...
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Pioneering the development of offshore drilling industry, Azerbaijan accelerated its offshore geological oil prospecting works
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In late 1960s, 8 new oil and natural gas fields were discovered, doubling the oil and tripling the natural gas resources in Azerbaijan
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Caspianseaoil Production Union (Hazardenizneft Istehsalat Birligi) (IB) was founded
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By the initiative of the all-national leader of the Azerbaijan people, Heydar Aliyev...
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The total volume of oil and natural gas production reached 27.1 million tons
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With the effect of the works and technical improvements of the past decade
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The Deep Water Jackets Plant was constructed and launched in Baku
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Restoration of independancy for the Republic of Azerbaijan
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SOCAR, the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic
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The strategic agreement, referred to as “The Contract of the Century”,
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The Baku-Novorossiysk Northern Export Pipeline was put to service
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The Baku-Supsa Western Export Pipeline was put to service
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Azerbaijan Republic State Oil Fund (SOFAZ) was founded to collect the oil revenue under a single fund.
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Having acquired Azerigaz Inc. that handles Azerbaijan’s gas distribution and Azerikimya State Company
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On May 28, first oil reached the Ceyhan port through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Main Export Pipeline
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The Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum “South Caucasian Gas Pipeline” was put to service
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Since 2008, SOCAR carries out oil and oil products trade with SOCAR Trading based in Switzerland
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Undertaking another giant project, SOCAR signed an agreement with Korean National Oil Corporation
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On June 26, the President of the Azerbaijan Republic, Ilham Aliyev
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With the acquisition of ESSO, SOCAR started to distribute fuel in Europe
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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.
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The “Contract of the Century” Extended to 2050...
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STAR Refinery, the giant investment by SOCAR, inaugurated...
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The first naphtha produced by STAR Refinery was delivered to Petkim...
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