OREANDA-NEWS. June 23, 2010. SOCAR and American MI-LLC Company signed a contract for the preparation of a feasibility study for the establishment of SOCAR centre for waste management system. The Contract envisages choosing appropriate technologies for processing of waste formed as a result of activity of SOCAR's enterprises and institutions, specifying the present waste recycling spheres in the country and defining the cooperation opportunities with them, and other issues.

In this connection, experts of the U.S. MI-LLC Company got acquainted with the sources of waste and their conditions of keeping at N.Narimanov OPGD, Absheronneft OPGD, Bibiheybat OPGD, H.Z.Taghiyev OPGD, Ə.J.Amirov OPGD, Balakhanineft OPGD of “Azneft” PU, Transportation Department, Baku Deep Water Jacket Plant, Caspian Sea Oil Fleet, ”Azerneftyagh” Oil Refinery, and other enterprises of SOCAR.

Within the project, MI-LLC staff got familiarized with certain normative documents and permissible level of emissions, and present condition of centre for waste management system. After the initial observations, the treatment and utilization of emissions in the “Azneftyagh” Oil Refinery, which as a result of the production is contaminated with oxidized tar, was set one of the main issues. At the same time, MI-LLC and SOCAR discussed various aspects of the project, purchase of refinery devices for certain waste utilization during the production process, and the aspects of forthcoming operations.