HISTORY OF AZERBAIJAN OIL AND GAS

1803

For the first time in the World, Haji Kasymbek Mansurbekov from Baku began offshore oil production in Bibi Heybat Bay from two wells located 18 meters and 30 meters from the shore. These offshore fields ceased to exist in 1825 when a violent storm destroyed the wells in the Caspian Sea.

1837
1837

Nikolay Voskoboynikov launched the oil refinery in Balakhani. For the first time in the World, the refinery applied the method of distilling oil with steam and heat by burning natural gas.

1846

Following the proposal made by the member of the Head office of Transcaucasia, Vasiliy Semyonov, the World’s first exploration well was drilled successfully in Baku and Bibiheybat under the leadership of major Alekseyev, the director of Baku oil fields.

1847
1847

Industrially valuable oil was, for the first time in history, produced from wells drilled through the application of mechanical methods at the Bibiheybat and then at the Balakhani fields of Baku.

1859

Dubinin brothers’ large oil refinery was launched in Baku. The refinery primarily produced white oil.

1873

Transportation of oil in wooden barges started in the Caspian Sea.

1875
1875

Foreign capital flow into the Azerbaijani oil industry commenced, resulting in the emergence of a generation of local industrialists.

1876

A deep well pump was applied for the first time. Similar types of equipment were used in the USA approximately 15 years after this event.

1877

The World's first metal hull oil tanker, “Zoroastr,” was built to transport white oil.

1878
1878

The construction of the railroad connecting oil fields with refineries was financed by the “Nobel Brothers” firm and completed in April of 1879.

1883
1883

The Baku-Batumi segment of the Transcaucasian railroad was put to use in May.
On May 16, Brothers Alphonse and Edmond Rothschild founded the Caspian and Black Sea Oil Industry and Trade Society in Baku.

1884

The auger stem method was first applied in well drilling and became famous as the “Baku method.”

1885

For the first time in the history of the oil industry, the engineer G.V. Alekseyev developed and installed an industrial-scale cubic plant that produced benzene and white oil by cracking residual tar at a Baku factory named after S.M. Shibayev.

1888

Under pressure cementing, the oil wells were performed for the first time in the World at the proposal of engineer Mepisov.

1890
1890

For the first time in the World, V. Shukhov and S. Gavrilov devised a continuously moving tubular thermal cracking unit to obtain benzene.

1897

For the first time in the World, the double-deckered Assan Dadashov oil tanker was launched.