Neft Dashlari (Oil Rocks): an offshore oil city
Neft Daşları (Rocas del Petróleo): ciudad petrolera marina
- Date
- 1949 · confidence medium
- Place
- Neft Dashlari, Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan
- Credited to
- Mikhail Kaverochkin and Azneft engineers
- Field
- Matter & energy
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What it is
The first large offshore oil well, drilled in 1949 some 40 km from the coast, and a complex of causeways and platforms extending for kilometres. It is one of the first offshore oil installations out of sight of land.
World priority is disputed: there were wells from piers in California (Summerland, 1896) and in the Gulf of Mexico (Kerr-McGee, 1947, out of sight of land). Neft Dashlari is the first large-scale installation in open sea.
What it led to
- drilling and production with fixed platforms and steel structures at sea
- a city with housing, a hospital and a power plant on piles
- development of the Caspian offshore oil industry