Abandoned Oil Platforms Neft Dashlari In The Caspian Sea

In 1950, Soviet engineers began building a great city in the Caspian Sea off the coast of Azerbaijan. It was a network of oil platforms, linked by hundreds of kilometers of roads. These islands were built housing for 5,000 workers, with a cinema, parks, sports complexes and other institutions. Gradually, the oil reserves were depleted, and now this place Nostalgia for the old dilapidated engineering Soviet man. In 1999, part of the James Bond movie "The World is not enough" was filmed on these platforms. But back to the story. The area of ​​Azerbaijan has been known for its rich oil resources since ancient times.

In 1941, Azerbaijan, at the time he was part of the Soviet Union, it has already supplied 175 million barrels of crude oil per year - it was 75 percent of total oil production in the country. That is why the German troops during the Second World War, so sought here. After the war, Soviet engineers came to the coastal island that sailors called "Black Rock." They built a barn on the tiny island and conducted test drilling. On the night of November 7, 1949, they found high quality oil at a depth of 1100 meters below the seabed and soon after that, at this point the first offshore platform for oil production in the world was built. The platform was primitive compared to modern mastodons, because it consisted mostly of wood.

It was a Stalinist utopia for the working class. Utopia existed and was a haven for Petroleum for about ten years, until the beginning of the fall of oil quality and to close the tower. Now, most of the road collapsed and represents a great danger to navigation. But I want to surprise you, there are still people out there who work and live. Earnings have only $ 130 per month, is at times less than it receives Neftyannik on the mainland, but there are such people.

There were plans to refurbish these places and even soared idea to turn it into a tropical luxury resort, but nothing came of it. Today, on this deposit account for only a small portion of oil produced in Azerbaijan. According to expert estimates, the oil fields can produce oil more than 20 years. However, infrastructure remains a maximum of ten years. Without proper repair all of this utopia will come under the Caspian Sea five years from now.

Source - guerrillasemiotics.com, artificialowl.net