BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 15. Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR has cleared more than 2,819 hectares of land from oil waste from 2006 through 2021, Trend reports citing the company.
“Some of the waste was recycled, and some was sent to a waste management center. SOCAR cleared 56.57 hectares of land from waste from operating companies and joint ventures in 2021 alone. Over the past 10 years, 1,111 hectares have been cleared of waste,” the company said in a statement.
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, one oil refineries and one gas processing plant, a deep water platform fabrication yard, two trusts, one institution, and 23 subdivisions are operating as corporate entities under SOCAR.
SOCAR conducts various petroleum activities in countries such as Georgia, Turkey, Romania, Switzerland, Germany and Ukraine, including trading activities, mainly in Switzerland, Singapore and Nigeria.
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