OREANDA-NEWS. April 3, 2009. The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) started scaled researches of offshore oil and gas fields in Azerbaijan’s segment of Caspian Sea.

SOCAR reports the researches commenced on April 1 uses four scientific and research ships. “Ali Amirov” engineering and geologic vessel works on Gunashli field to select core in order to determine location of new platforms. “Geophysicist-2” surveys Gilavar-Khazry prospective structure to the north-east from Parallakhi island carrying out bathymetry and sonar photographing. Bulla Deniz gas condensate field is surveyed by “Zokhrab Veliyev” ship while “Mammad Suleymanov” ship conducts researches on Darwin bank field within projecting the platform #620.