Azerbaijan, Baku, Aug.4 / Trend E.Ismayilov /
The State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) plans to announce a tender on development of Azerbaijani fields' cooperative database soon, a source in SOCAR said on Ag.4.
At present, the company is doing pre-tender work over establishing fields cooperative database on Azerbaijan, the source said.
The company plans to announce the tender in one or two months. The main objective of the tender is to establish special database, which means accumulation and storage of geological and production data, field data, particularly, data on mining, drilling and exploration work, the source said.
This will be the second tender. The company announced the results of the first tender as unsatisfactory. Participants of the tender were 5 foreign companies, particularly, Schlumberger, Halliburton and the results were summarized in June. Local companies did not take part in the tender. "Our companies lack enough experience in this sphere", the source said.
SOCAR information technologies and communication department is involved in developing cooperative database.
There are 57 gas and oil fields, 18 of 57 fields are offshore and the rest are onshore. At present, SOCAR has more than 62,000 employees.
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