Azerbaijan`s MES arrives at accident site in Caspian Sea

  16 December 2016    Read: 1112
Azerbaijan`s MES arrives at accident site in Caspian Sea
Azerbaijan’s Minister of Emergency Situations, Colonel General Kemaleddin Heydarov, together with SOCAR President Rovnag Abdullayev, are currently at the site where a flyover at the oil-gathering station #3 of the department on oil and gas output of Azneft Production Union was blown away by strong wind on Dec.15, the Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES) said in a statement on Dec. 16.
The minister and the SOCAR president are having discussions with heads of concerned bodies involved in the search operation for the missing oilmen.

The accident took place at about 05:00 (UTC/GMT+4), on Dec. 15, due to strong wind, which blew away a part of a flyover of a 150-meter long oil-gathering station. A board attached to the flyover and a booth on it were also blown away.

According to preliminary reports, five people, who were on duty at the gathering station, and five people, who were in the booth, are missing.

The body of Ilham Gafarov, who is one of the missing oilmen, was found at about 14:00 p.m. on Dec. 15.

A special group has been created to investigate the accident.


The list of missing people:

1. Guloglan Zulfugarov – engineer

2. Azay Zulfugarov – operator

3. Vidadi Gurbanov – operator

4. Elchin Hasanov - mechanical engineer

5. Hasanagha Hajialiyev – operator

6. Ilham Gafarov – operator

7. Samir Asadov – operator

8. Javid Bahramov – operator

9. Ramiz Abbasov – engineer

10. Gorkhmaz Rustamov – operator

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