Azerbaijan

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February 08, 2021
Turkey’s state-owned oil and gas company is considering partnerships and plans to raise funding this year to carry out work on the biggest natural gas discovery in the Black Sea, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

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September 28, 2020
The conflict centers on the Nagorno-Karabakh region claimed by both countries. In theory, it has the potential to disrupt oil and gas flows from Azerbaijan, since export pipelines from the Caspian Sea region’s second-biggest crude producer run within just 10 miles of its border with Armenia.
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December 16, 2019
Petrofac, in a joint venture (JV) with the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), has secured a project management services contract to support BP’s operations in Azerbaijan and Georgia.
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November 04, 2019
MOL has signed an agreement with Chevron Global Ventures Ltd and Chevron BTC Pipeline, Ltd to acquire their non-operated E&P and mid-stream interests in Azerbaijan, for total consideration of $1.57 billion.

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October 04, 2019
Saipem, in consortium with Boshelf LLC and STAR GULF FZCO, has recently been awarded three new contracts by BP for the development of the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli oil and gas field offshore Azerbaijan.
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October 01, 2019
Subsea 7 announced today the award of two contracts by BP Exploration for the Azeri Central East project in the Azeri-Chirag-Deepwater Gunashli field in the Caspian Sea, in a water depth of approximately 140 meters.
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August 19, 2019
The 12-month contract, with option to extend, will support activity in the Absheron natural gas field, located in the Caspian Sea approximately 100 kilometers south of Baku.
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July 22, 2019
Emerson has completed its $48-million contract for automation systems and cloud engineering software-as-a-service for the Shah Deniz 2 project in Azerbaijan and is fulfilling an ongoing five-year services contract.

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April 19, 2019
Equinor and eight partners in the offshore Azeri Chirag Gunashli (ACG) oilfield in the Caspian Sea have made a $6 billion investment decision to build an additional platform in the license area.

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April 16, 2019
Turan Drilling & Engineering Company LLC (A KCA Deutag and SOCAR AQS Company), has announced that it has been awarded its first contract, with BP Exploration (Caspian Sea) Limited (BP).

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April 09, 2019
Weir Oil & Gas has announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University (ASOIU), a non-profit public higher education institution founded in 1920.
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February 2019
Rising oil supplies and falling prices in second-half 2018 constrained global drilling, but activity should post a measured gain in 2019. Virtually all the global oil production increase is due to U.S. shale activity.
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January 14, 2019
OPEC and its allies plan to hold a meeting in March to assess their oil-production accord in Azerbaijan, and then ministers will gather to set policy in April, according to the organization’s top official.
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January 10, 2019
BP just spent $28 billion bringing a giant natural gas project in Azerbaijan online, and that may only be the start.
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November 07, 2018
Wood and Nobel Oil have entered into a joint venture (JV) agreement to provide engineering and operations support services to the oil and gas market in Azerbaijan.
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August 12, 2018
Five Caspian Sea states reached a breakthrough agreement on sovereign rights to the sea, paving the way for new oil and gas extraction -- and pipelines -- after more than two decades of disputes.
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July 02, 2018
BP and its partners in the Shah Deniz consortium today announced the start-up of the landmark Shah Deniz 2 gas development in Azerbaijan, including its first commercial gas delivery to Turkey.
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May 30, 2018
Statoil Azerbaijan (part of the Equinor group) and Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR have signed a Risk Service Agreement (RSA) related to the appraisal and development of Karabagh oilfield and a Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) for the Ashrafi, Dan Ulduzu, Aypara area.
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April 26, 2018
SOCAR and BP today signed a new production sharing agreement (PSA) for the joint exploration and development of Block D230 in the North Absheron basin, in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea.
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February 16, 2018
Total E&P Absheron B.V. (Total), acting as operator for and on behalf of a consortium presently composed of Total E&P Absheron B.V. (50%) and Socar Absheron LLC (50%) has tasked HydraWell to execute a part of plug & abandonment campaign at Absheron field, in the Caspian Sea.
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December 05, 2017
Petrofac’s Training Services business and the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) have signed a Shareholders Agreement to form a Joint Venture (JV) for the pursuit of training opportunities across the country’s oil & gas and petrochemical industries.