Azerbaijan continues search for missing oil workers

  18 March 2016    Read: 1212
Azerbaijan continues search for missing oil workers
The search for the oil workers, who went missing in the Caspian Sea, continues in Azerbaijan, the website of the country
The oil workers went missing in an accident on the platform No. 10 of Azerbaijan’s Guneshli oil field and the platform No. 501 of the Oil Rocks field.

The fire broke out on the offshore platform Dec. 4, 2015, as strong storm damaged an underwater high-pressure gas pipeline.

As many as 33 people were rescued in an ensuing large-scale operation. The bodies of 12 killed were retrieved, while 18 oil workers are still listed as missing.

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