OIL RIGS HAVE YOU SEEN ?@LAND OF FIRE 🔥 AZERBAIJAN!

When the first oil well was drilled with cable tools on Azerbaijan’s Absheron Peninsula in the 1846, local residents had already been producing oil for almost 2,000 years and selling it to traders who carried it along the Silk Road, or transported it in oil-sealed ships across the Caspian Sea.
Now, Azerbaijan is converting offshore oil production platforms into wind farms.
Oil and gas were deeply embedded in the culture and consciousness of those living in that region of the Caspian Sea. Natural gas seeps were ignited to create eternal fires in Zoroastrian temples.
Oil and tar were used to waterproof wood, to burn for fuel, and to use as a salve for people and camels.
The production came from manually dug wells. By the late 1600s, Turkish scientist Evliya Celebi reported as many as 500 extraction operations. In 1654, Al Akhyar Mamed Nuri dug the first 35-m deep oil well. To produce it, oil was bailed in leather buckets.
When it comes to oil, Azerbaijan is home to many “firsts.” In addition to the first mechanically drilled oil well in 1846, there was also the first offshore drilling platform, located around 50 m from shore in the Caspian Sea. The first oil tanker was built and used to transport the oil, and new processes were developed for kerosene, paraffin, and other petroleum products.
Mysteries remain in the South Caspian Basin.
One is the origin of the hydrocarbons in the lower Pliocene Productive Series, which is now considered to have been epigenetic. The source rocks are considered to have been both the Oligocene-Lower Miocene (Maikop series) and the Middle-Upper Miocene Diatom series.
There were at least two phases of migration. As a result, it has been a complex challenge to analyze the oils of all the producing wells to determine migration pathways and economic step-out of productive structures identified in seismic.
While oil production was first located in the western part of the Caspian in the Absheron peninsula near Baku, ongoing exploration efforts have encountered significant reserves offshore Caspian. The ownership of the estimated 48 billion barrels of proven reserves and 292 trillion cubic feet of natural gas is divided into territories controlled by the countries with Caspian coastlines.
Additional reserves and discoveries are possible both offshore and onshore; much depends on determining structure and migration pathways. For that, new developments in seismic processing, geochemical analysis, and data analytics can provide invaluable.
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