SOCAR builds new trestle platform
SOCAR has started construction of 418 A trestle platform at the Oil Rocks field in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea, the company says in its press release. The main contractor of the construction is the Oil and Gas Construction Trust. The project has been prepared by the Oil and Gas Scientific Research Project Institute. The platform will be designed to drill 14 wells and be installed at a water depth of 13 metres. The platform will be equipped with high and low-pressure separators, devices for gas heating, automatic gas distributing, as well as oil and gas measuring. It is considered that the daily debit of the wells to be drilled on the site will be 140 tons of oil and 10 million cubic meters of gas.