Oil and Gas Construction Trust of SOCAR is involved in renovation of oil-gas fields, installation of technological oil-gas-field equipment, construction of offshore, underground and onshore main oil-gas-water pipelines, asphalt-concrete cover, hydrotechnical onshore and offshore structures, jackets, offshore piers, gas compressor stations, oil reservoirs and social construction projects. Trust incorporates 7 boards of various profiles and Representative Office in Georgia. As a Contractor, Trust provides all kind of services to its customers in all the regions of Azerbaijan including “Guneshli” and “Oil Rocks” fields, Gum Adasi, “Pirallahi”, Chilov, Khara-Zira islands and surrounding areas, as well as Sangachal-Duvanni area and different other regions.
The main objective and target of Trust is to complete each awarded scope with high quality, environmentally friendly and safety factors as per requirements of the international standards. Great work has been performed to achieve the said objectives. Oil and Gas Construction Trust has been honored the international certificates of the Turkish Standards Institution Turk AK: TSE-ISO-EN 9001 dated 19.02.2002, TSE-ISO-EN 14001 dated 25.12.2002, TS-OHSAS 18001 dated 11.01.2005 and TSE EN ISO/IEC 17025 dated 09.02.2009.
As of January 01, 2015, the number of Trust employees counted 4,113 people, including managers 501, specialists 338, workers 3,243 and other employees 31. The average monthly salary is 1,021 AZN.
In 2014, Trust carried out construction-installation operations under the main contract in amount of 321,031.5 th. AZN, and completed the scope worth 274,596.7 th. AZN by its own resources. Out of the total volume of scopes completed under main contract, the major part consists of repair and capital construction operations worth 95,138.7 th. AZN and 225,892.8 th. AZN.
Oil and gas infrastructure
One of the key objectives for Oil and Gas Construction Trust in 2014 was to execute contract work as approved by SOCAR, to fulfill decisions of protocols from technical meetings at the oil and gas production departments (OGPD) and ensure timely commissioning of production facilities. All works on capital construction, repair and reconstruction at production facilities of countrywide significance, envisaged in the action plans approved by SOCAR, were performed timely and completely. Trust was awarded with work to expand and repair deepwater jackets so as to ensure higher oil and gas output at “Guneshli” field, drill additional wells, improve the existing technological systems of collection and transportation, and also create a reliable system for transportation to the shore facilities without loss of produced oil and gas. Last year, Trust’s team fulfilled all awarded commitments, utilized all available human resources and performance capacity and achieved high production figures.
In 2014, Oil and Gas Construction Trust completed construction and repair of tens of oil-gas projects which were put into operation. E.g.: “Construction of fixed offshore platform #2585 for Oil Rocks (complex II)”, “Fuel gas supply of Gas Turbine Electrical Station at “Oil Rocks”” field”, “Installation of high pressure gas pipeline between sites #23-252 at “Oil Rocks” field”, “Installation of 6” gas pipeline between sites #1183-1047 at “Palchig Pilpilasi” field”, “Installation of 8” high pressure water pipeline between DWJs #8 and #19 and DWJs # 19 and #14 at “Guneshli” field”, “Installation of 10” high pressure gas pipeline between DWJs #4 and #3 at “Guneshli” field”, “Installation of lines for transportation of gas and condensate produced at “Darvin Bankasi“ field to the shore”, “Construction of Gas-Lift Compressor Station at “Guneshli” field”, “Construction of SWJ #20 for drilling of 10 wells at “Western Absheron” field”, “Construction of horizontal well #1211 to be drilled at “Northern Pirallahi” field”, “Overhaul SWP#162 at “Darvin Bankasi” field”, “Construction of SWJ#112 for drilling of 10 production wells at “Chilov” field”, “Installation of subsea oil-gas pipeline between DWJ#29 and DWJ #14 at “Bulla-Deniz” field”, “Construction of SWJ#122 for drilling of 3 production wells at “Bulla-Deniz” field (Complex I)”, “Reinstatement of power supply system of piers and offshore facilities of N.Narimanov OGPD”, “Modernization of oil-gas production sites#3 and #4 at H.Z.Taghiyev OGPD at Buzovna site”, “Reconstruction of Gas Compressor Station (Complex II) of Garadagh#2 (Complex II)” by order of Azneft PU, “Overhaul of gas pipeline in 7 villages of the Bilasuvar district” by order of Azerigas PU, “Reinstatement of Gazimammad-Gazakh main gas pipeline 1200 mm in diameter (I line) on section 0-210 km (114-138 km)”, “Overhaul of Gazimammad-Gazakh main gas pipeline (Line II) crossing sections along the Baku-Tbilisi railroad (215 km and 256 km) and highway (248 km and 255 km)”, “Overhaul of Gazimammad-Gazakh main gas pipeline (Line II) 1000mm diameter on section 270-273.5 km”, “Repair of gas pipeline from Mingachevir gas distribution station toward Mingachevir thermal power station” by order of Gas Export Department and other similar operations.
In general, in 2014, Oil and Gas Construction Trust installed various diameter oil-gas pipelines with total length of 208.5 km: 80.4 km on piers and jackets, 22.5 km of subsea lines, etc. Also power lines: 307.9 km of onshore cable lines, 22.5km of subsea cable lines and 12.5 km of air transmission lines. Along with that, 45,889.4 tons of steel structures were assembled, more than 20,000 welding joints were tested, production of reinforced concrete and concrete mixture totally reached 32,412 m3, construction-repair operations performed on piers with the length up to 4,173 r.m. and site area of 18,014 m2 and laid asphalt cover up to 462,801 m2.
International projects
Trust has also carried out timely and qualitative implementation of its commitments assumed as a part of targeted cooperation with different foreign and local companies such as Caspian Pipe Coatings LLC, Nobel Oil, İlk Inşaat Taahhüt Sanayi ve Ticaret Limited, Georgian Oil and Gas Corporation SC, Municipal Development Fund of Georgia as well as local branch offices of Saipem”, “Heavy Crane” FZE and other companies which were in close cooperation with Trust in 2014.
Oil and Gas Construction Trust also continues expanding business beyond the territory of our country. Representative Office of Trust has been operating in Georgia since 2006. It was involved into construction of oil-gas pipelines and other hydrotechnical facilities and different infrastructure projects in Georgia. In 2014, Representative Office became a successful bidder of tenders announced by Municipal Development Fund of Georgia for projects on Rehabilitation of Water Supply Systems of Telavi-Kurdgelauri and Kareli. Construction-installation works are currently ongoing successfully within the planned framework of these projects.
Advanced technologies
The management of SOCAR regularly introduces new technologies in the oil-gas industry. Therefore, executive and engineering-technical employees of Oil and Gas Construction Trust were on business trips in numerous European countries to attend different international conferences, fairs and training sessions. Since the end of 2012, Trust has introduced electric welding by automatic and semi-automatic machines for the first time in oil-gas industry of the country.
Utilization of new technologies has considerably raised the quality of welding operations, mechanical properties of welded joints, melting coefficient of welding materials and substantially reduced physical load of the welder (operator).
Today, Trust is successfully applying electric welding by automatic and semi-automatic machines in all projects. The range of using such type of welding is growing as far as projects are implemented.
According to the program approved by SOCAR, Trust will fulfill contract work in amount 302,434.3 th. AZN in 2015. Out of this total amount, construction-installation works worth value 283,094.7 th AZN will be performed by its own resources.
The management team of Oil and Gas Construction Trust declares that the goal and ideas of Trust is to have every awarded work completed with high quality, environmentally friendly and safety as per requirements of the international standards. Finally, it should be noted that Oil and Gas Construction Trust has been granted another recognition award. Trust was recognized as a winner of “Construction Company of the Year in the oil-gas sector” nomination at Caspian Energy Integration Award-2014 presentation ceremony held by Caspian European Club at JW Marriot Hotel Absheron Baku on March 12, 2014.
