But in an acknowledgment that they were unlikely to be found alive, the company asked the four other countries who share the Caspian Sea to search their own territorial waters for bodies of the missing oil workers.
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The head of Azerbaijan’s Oil Workers” Rights Protection Committee said: “According to our information, 32 workers died, while 42 workers were rescued last night.
The platform, which was built in 1984, produced 900 metric tons of oil a day, the equivalent of 6,700 barrels, said Xosbaxt Yusifzada, the company’s first vice-president.
In a separate incident, SOCAR said on Friday that three workers were missing from another of its offshore oil platforms in the Caspian after an accident during the storm.
In a related report by the Inquisitr, it is predicted that 2016 oil prices will remain low, and experts believe Saudi Arabia would rather cooperate than compete with Russian Federation and Iran.
A nonetheless image from a video footage shows an oil platform on fire within the Caspian Ocean, Azerbaijan, Dec. 5, 2015. Despite poor weather conditions, 32 people could be saved.
Since Friday is an offshore oil platform in the Caspian Sea in flames. Government prosecutors had opened an inquiry into possible “breaches of fire safety regulations”. Robust winds & waves as much as 33 ft. high made rescue operations extraordinarily troublesome, the assertion stated. The numbers were not immediately confirmed by SOCAR.
The Azeri Press Agency reported there were 63 workers on the platform when the fire started Friday, but SOCAR has so far not released precise figures.
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The deadliest incident in recent decades occurred in the North Sea in 1988, when the Piper Alpha oil platform operated by the US-based Occidental Petroleum exploded, killing 167 people.
