Neft Daşları
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Neft Daşları (literally: oil rocks , petroleum stones ) is an Azerbaijani oil rig in the Caspian Sea .
The rig was in 1948 as the world's first offshore - drilling platform from the former Soviet Union created on stilts in the Caspian Sea. It is 45 km from the coast of the Abseron Peninsula (on which the Azerbaijani capital Baku is located). Due to a reef, the average sea depth is only 20 meters. The oil deposits are located at a depth of 1,100 meters under the sea.
The oil production facility includes an elevated settlement built since 1958, which has apartment blocks, shops, the food industry, two power plants (250 kilowatts of power), cultural sites and a park. In the first construction phase, 16 two-story houses were built in addition to single-storey houses. Later, between 1966 and 1975, several residential buildings with five and one with nine storeys were added. With its 5000 inhabitants and 300 km of roads, Neft Daşları is the largest oil rig in the world. Sunk ships, including the world's first oil tanker, the Zoroaster, form the foundation of the main settlement . In the heyday of the 1960s, there were 2000 drilling platforms within a 30-kilometer radius of the settlement, which were connected by viaducts for truck traffic.
Parts of the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough were filmed in 1999 on a replica of part of this oil rig in the exterior tank at Pinewood Studios . Because of the special effects (explosions), shooting on the original location was too dangerous.
Individual evidence
- ^ Spiegel Online, One Day (November 12, 2012): Floating City Neft Dashlari - Stalin's Atlantis .
- ↑ James Bond Model Car Collection (Issue 4, Page 10).
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Coordinates: 40 ° 14 ' N , 50 ° 51' E