Published September 2015

Environmental and energy issues of oil-gas production on the Caspian Sea

Mir-Yusif Mir-Babayev - Azerbaijan Technical University

In the article, it is offered a brief review of the environmental and energy issues arising on the Caspian Sea during the oil-gas production. The article pointed out that in the nearest future there will be intensive oil and gas production on the sea; so environmental issues, their solutions and safety life for all oil and gas companies operating on the sea should be in place first. There are shown the basic problems for the ecologists and oil specialists of the five Caspian littoral countries, which need to be solved first.