Works on rectifying the consequences of the accident that took place at platform #90 in the Bulla-Deniz field were continued on September 5.

The northern part of the platform has been cleaned from extraneous objects by means of fire-fighting vessels and Zulfu Hajiyev crane ship. The equipments needed for the elimination of the breakdown had been loaded to the Gurban Abbasov crane ship, necessary water pumps were installed on a tow-boat. Currently, experts of SOCAR and the US Halliburton’s “BOOTS & COOTS” are testing and repairing the blowout prevention equipments to be used for allocating the blowout.

About Socar
The State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) is involved in exploring oil and gas fields, producing, processing, and transporting oil, gas, and gas condensate, marketing petroleum and petrochemical products in domestic and international markets, and supplying natural gas to industry and the public in Azerbaijan. Three production divisions, two oil refineries and one gas processing plant, an oil tanker fleet, a deep water platform fabrication yard, two trusts, one institution, and 22 subdivisions are operating as corporate entities under SOCAR.