A new vice president of the Azerbaijan's State Oil Company SOCAR has been appointed, Ibrahim Ahmadov, deputy head of the public relations and events department at Azerbaijan's State Oil Company SOCAR, told Trend.

Azerbaijan seeks to become the second largest gas supplier to Turkey, the head of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR), Rovnag Abdullayev, has said.

Due to the worsening weather, Azerbaijan's State Oil Company SOCAR has tightened safety measures as much as possible and about 420 oil workers have been evacuated from offshore platforms, Trend reports with reference to the company.

Renewable energy sources, including hydropower resources, account for 18 percent of Azerbaijan’s total energy consumption, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Mukhtar Babayev said on November 27 during an international conference on the role of the Paris Agreement on climate and environmental change held in Baku.

BP-Azerbaijan and the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) have agreed on a work program for the Shah Deniz field development project for 2020, BP Vice President for Foreign Relations and Strategic Issues in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey Bakhtiyar Aslanbeyli told local media on November 27.

State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), Uzbekneftegaz JSC and Uzkhimprom JSC plan to create a joint venture for export of chemical, oil and gas products and fertilizers from Uzbekistan to the European market.

Azerbaijan’s State Oil Company (SOCAR) and Uzbekneftegaz JSC will create a joint venture to carry out trading operations in Europe and other countries, Uzbekneftegaz informed on its website.

Azerbaijan’s State Oil Company (SOCAR) and Norway's Equinor will start drilling an appraisal well in the Karabakh field with estimated oil reserves of 100 million tons.

State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) expects 19 billion cubic meters of gas from the Shah Deniz field in 2019, while production will increase to 24 billion cubic meters in 2021, SOCAR’s Vice President for field development Yashar Latifov has said.

Thirteen employees of Azerbaijan’s Ustay company appealed to the management in connection with dizziness and nausea, Ibrahim Ahmadov, deputy head of the Public Relations and Event Management Department of the Azerbaijani state oil company SOCAR, told Trend on November 16.