OREANDA-NEWS. July 16, 2010. The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (except Joint Ventures and Operating Companies) conducted 13176 meters of drilling works in June, 2010. 13105 meters of them falls to the share of operational drilling and 71 meters – to the share of exploration drilling. Generally, in January-June of the current year SOCAR (except Joint Ventures and Operating Companies) conducted 71374 meters of drilling works including 69460 meters of operational drilling and 1914 meters of exploration drilling (out of them 462 meters structure drilling).