2024 Author: Adelina Croftoon | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 02:07
Initial versions included an explosion on a gas production platform in Azerbaijan, but have been refuted. The fire at the site of the explosion continued on Monday, but, according to rescuers who watched it from the air, it was no longer dangerous
On the evening of July 4, 2021, on Sunday in the Caspian Sea, not far from the coast of Azerbaijan, a very strong explosion, the cause of which was not easy to determine.
The first thing they suspected was that the explosion was connected with the Azerbaijani Umid gas production platform, but soon it was reported that the explosion actually took place on the side of this platform.
Further, local journalists contacted the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) and there categorically denied that the explosion could have occurred on one of their platforms or industrial facilities.
It was also reported that work on the platforms continues on schedule. In the meantime, videos and photos with an explosion began to spread on social networks.
Photo sent to our site by one of the eyewitnesses
Then there were reports that a mysterious explosion damaged underwater oil and gas deposits on the Caspian shelf and that a fire broke out there, but these words were denied by the Azerbaijani government.
The official version of the explosion, named by SOCAR representatives, is the sudden eruption of a mud volcano. True, and this is still only a suspicion.
The eruption actually took place in an area where Azerbaijan has many oil and gas fields. The fire at the site of the explosion continued on Monday, but according to rescuers who watched it from the air, it was no longer dangerous.
The volcano that caused the emergency is located on an uninhabited island of Dashly about 30 km from the coast, 75 km from Baku and 6 km from the Umid offshore gas platform. The center of the eruption lay at a depth of about one and a half kilometers.
View of the explosion from the side of an unspecified settlement on the shore, photo from social networks
Land of Lights
The version of the mud volcano really looks logical, since the territory of Azerbaijan is literally crammed with them. They are about a thousand of the world's mud volcanoes, about 400 are in Azerbaijan. Because of them, oil and gas deposits have been regularly ignited in the past.
There is a theory that it was because of such fires that the famous Venetian traveler Marco Polo in the 13th century called this area the "Land of Fire".
Mud volcanoes are distinguished by the fact that, in addition to gases, stones and ash, they spew a large amount of hot mud.
"Mud volcanoes in Azerbaijan are one of the largest and most active in the world. On average, there are several eruptions every year, and many of them are capable of causing a big fire," Australian geophysicist Mark Tingey of the University of Adelaide tweeted.
A powerful explosion in the Caspian Sea occurred literally two days after the colossal underwater fire that occurred last Friday in the Gulf of Mexico. This fire was caused by the rupture of an underwater gas pipeline and raged for about five hours.
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