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Ten oilfield workers are missing after part of an oil platform collapsed in the Caspian Sea caused by high winds, according to Azerbaijan state oil firm, SOCAR.

Ships of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Caspian Shipping Company are conducting a search and rescue operation.

Management of the ministry, SOCAR and Azneft company are in the site. A special task force was set up to investigate the accident.

According to the preliminary data, five people, who were on duty at the gathering station, and five people, who were in the booth, are missing.

The list of missing employees of the Azneft Production Union:

1.Guloglan Zulfugarov – engineer

2. Azay Zulfugarov – operator

3. Vidadi Gurbanov – operator

4. Elchin Hasanov - mechanical engineer

5. Hasanagha Hajialiyev – operator

6. Ilham Gafarov – operator

7. Samir Asadov – operator

8. Javid Bahramov – operator

9. Ramiz Abbasov – engineer

10. Gorkhmaz Rustamov – operator

Two vessels (VIXR-5 and VIXR-8) of Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Emergency Situations and five vessels of the State Maritime Administration of Azerbaijan continue to search the oil workers, who went missing as a result of the accident at the oil-gathering station #3 of the department on oil and gas output of Azneft Production Union, the Emergency Situations Ministry and State Maritime Administration reported on December 15.

Azneft Production Union has created a headquarters in connection with the accident at the oil-gathering station #3 of the oil and gas output department named after N. Narimanov.

Phone: (+994 12) 521-11-44; 521-12-82; (+994 50) 841-10-62; (+994 50) 841-12-09.

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