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Preface
The discovery of the unique Oil Rocks (Neft Dashlary) offshore field in
1949 became an important event in the development of the oil sector in Azerbaijan:
major offshore facilities equipped with high-quality (at the time) domestic
equipment were created in the open sea at a distance of up to 100 km from the shore
in a relatively short period of time. At that time, the Oil Rocks field was a major
offshore field in the world in terms of both reserves and oil output. It is indicative
that hundreds of thousands of wells have now been drilled at the bottom of the ocean
and many Western European and North American countries “are quenching” their
energy thirst with oil and gas extracted in the North Sea, Canadian and Brazilian
shelves, in the
Gulf of Mexico and so on, foreign specialists who come
to Azerbaijan
are still interested in Oil Rocks – a unique town built on piles in the Caspian Sea
about 60 years ago.
We think that interest in this first town in the world built in the sea is not
accidental. The matter is that for all countries that are extracting oil and gas on the
continental shelf Oil Rocks is something like an extraterrestrial space station which
will be built in the future to become a support base for exploring the Universe. Back
in the 1960s when the first streets of Oil Rocks emerged in the Caspian Sea, foreign
press wrote that “Soviet oilmen are writing a new book on the history of the
development of our planet`s riches and are writing it in a language that has not been
known until now. Time will come and people will start to understand this language
and delightedly read the first pages of the chronicles of the development of the
continental shelf”.
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