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Soviet 1971 stamp, featuring Oil Rocks. The first large-scale geological study of the area was conducted in 1945–1948. [8] The settlement of Neft Daşları was built after oil was discovered there on 7 November 1949 [9] at 1,100 metres (3,600 ft) beneath the Caspian Sea. It became the world's first offshore oil platform. [10] [11]
The East Texas Oil Field is a large oil and gas field in east Texas. Covering 140,000 acres (57,000 ha) and parts of five counties, and having 30,340 historic and active oil wells, it is the second-largest oil field in the United States outside Alaska, and first in total volume of oil recovered since its discovery in 1930. [1]
Kashagan Field (Kazakh: Қашаған кен орны, Qaşağan ken orny) is an offshore oil field in Kazakhstan's zone of the Caspian Sea. [2] The field, discovered in 2000, is located in the northern part of the Caspian Sea close to Atyrau and is considered the world's largest discovery in the last 30 years, combined with the Tengiz Field. [3]
The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake and sometimes referred to as a full-fledged sea. [2] [3] [4] An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia: east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central Asia, south of the fertile plains of Southern Russia in Eastern Europe, and north of the mountainous Iranian Plateau.
1,400,000 barrels per day (220,000 m 3 /d) The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) is a consortium and an oil pipeline that transports Caspian oil from the Tengiz oil field in Kazakhstan to the Novorossiysk -2 Marine Terminal, an export terminal at the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. [1] It is one of the world's largest pipelines [1] and ...
The oil field is located in an area of low-lying wetlands along the northeast shores of the Caspian Sea. It covers a 2,500 km 2 (970 sq mi) project license area which also includes a smaller Korolev field as well as several exploratory prospects. Sizewise, Tengiz reservoir is 19 km (12 mi) wide and 21 km (13 mi) long. [1]
8 t) Azeri–Chirag–Gunashli (ACG, Azerbaijani: Azəri-Çıraq-Günəşli) or Azeri–Chirag–Deepwater Gunashli is a complex of oil fields in the Caspian Sea, about 120 kilometres (75 mi) off the coast of Azerbaijan. It consists of the Azeri and Chirag oil fields, and the deepwater portion of the Gunashli oil field. An overall estimate of ...
The Trans-Caspian Oil Transport System is a proposed project [ 1] to transport oil through the Caspian Sea from Kazakhstani Caspian oilfields to Baku in Azerbaijan for the further transportation to the Mediterranean or Black Sea coast. The main options under consideration are an offshore oil pipeline from Kazakhstan to Azerbaijan, and ...