OREANDA-NEWS. The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan together with Ecorem Company launched a new project on “providing consulting services for remediation and rehabilitation of oil contaminated lands in the Absheron peninsula”.
In this regard, SOCAR vice -president for Ecology Ms. Rafiga Huseynzadeh met with General Technical Director of Ecorem Mr. Stefan Helsen. During the meeting, it was stated that Company considers environmental impact assessment of contaminated lands, risk modeling, optimal monitoring, as well as defining remediation technologies within the project. SOCAR vice-president Ms. Huseynzadeh stated recommendations on defining general approaches to cleaning-up the contaminated lands and selecting possible cleanup technologies within the project. General Technical Director of Ecorem Mr. Stefan Helsen briefed on the project works to be done.

It is to mention that Ecorem representatives have participated at the international conference titled ''Global view on environment issues in the oil industry” held in Baku on November 4-5.