According to statistics of the 1st of January 2023, SOCAR’s Azneft PU has 47 oil and gas fields located onshore (28 fields) and in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea (19 fields), of which 28 fields (15 onshore, 13 offshore) are under development.
One of the offshore fields, the Oil Rocks, is featured in Guinness World Records as the oldest offshore oil platform in the world. Oil production in the field began in 1949, which opened a new page in the history of oil and created a scientific and practical basis for the development of deep oil and gas fields.
The fields Bibiheybat, Lokbatan-Puta-Goushkhana, Korgoz-Gizitepe-Shongar and Gala rank among the most continuously developed onshore fields; the industrial development of these fields began in 1923, 1927, 1931 and 1932, respectively. Development of the Bibiheybat field began in 1923, when the first well was drilled at a depth of 82.5 metres in an artificially drained part of Bibiheybat bay. The project on dewatering of Bibiheybat bay and drilling of oil wells was carried out under the leadership of famous Polish engineer Pavel Pototsky, who was invited to Baku in those years. The project started with dewatering of a 27 ha area and then continued to remove water in a 79 ha area in addition. Currently, two of the onshore fields, namely Turkan and Beyimdagh-Tekchay, are now in the phase of exploration.