CEP/Azerbaijan Oily Soil Clean Up
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Oily Soil Clean up | |
| Private Sector: CasAm Butan Tex Company
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Caspian (Azerbaijan) | |
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MSGP-AZ05-04 one year starting from January 2005 one year starting January 2005 | |
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| Project Summary
Historically the first full-scaled industrial oil-field development across the Absheron Peninsula of Azerbaijan was launched over 130 years ago. More than 1 billion tons of “black gold‿ has been extracted in this region since that time. However, the improper technology of oil production, transportation and refinery resulted in uncontrolled contamination of ground and water ecosystems. In particular, the topsoil within the adjacent to the Baku administration area is featured by formation of a man-caused desert without any vegetation. The area polluted by oil and oil products has a strong impact on all the elements of ecosystems including ground water that ultimately brings pollutants into the coastal water of the Caspian, air and surface water. The artificial oil–saturated lakes has been arisen in the vicinity of these old on-land oil fields (Binagadi, Surahany, Bibi-Eeybat) where the former fertile land once was covered by numerous vineyards and fig tree orchards. In view of this, the oil clean up of man-caused ecosystems and particularly, topsoil clean up appears to be one of the most important problems to be solved. The target of this project is focused on elimination of pollutants across about 1 he site(s) on the Absheron Peninsula. The major objectives fixed in the framework of project implementation are focused on the use of a state-of-the-art technologies and bio-products for cleaning up oil contaminated soils and the final results will serve to predetermine the environmental and technological feasibility of the technology in question. Background and Problem Statement It is well known that there exists today a great mass of oil-polluted soil in Azerbaijan, especially on the Absheron Peninsula and on some of the on-shore oil fields not far from the Caspian shore. In fact, thousands of hectares of soil across the Absheron Peninsula are contaminated by oil and oil products. Soils polluted with heavy metals and other contaminants are also widespread in the Caspian region, and oil polluted soil is a serious problem not only in Azerbaijan, but in Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran as well. Although there have been a number of initiatives to deal with the oily soil problem here in Azerbaijan, to date no concrete operational measures have been undertaken to actually clean these soils in an environmentally friendly and economical manner. This pilot project will develop a strategy for and demonstrate the feasibility of cleaning up territories contaminated by hydrocarbons, heavy metals and other hazardous substances. The sites in Buzovna and Mashtagi districts at the Absheron peninsula will be investigated and samples of soil, water and air analyzed. Based on an assessment of available technologies and products for cleaning up contaminated soil, several pilot clean-up operations will be performed. The effect of the clean-up operations will be monitored and trees will be planted on some of the cleaned site. The economic potential of alternative option for sustainable use of cleaned territory will also be assessed. The identified major objectives for implementation of the proposed project include the use of state-of-the-art technologies for cleaning up oil-contaminated soils. Final results will help to assess environmental and technological aspects as well as economical efficiency of the technology applied. All the clean up activities will be carried out under regulated physic-chemical parameters. The clean up process will be checked up through continuous monitoring, both chemical and biological. The efficiency index for the clean up process will be determined by degradation of 95-98% hydrocarbons comparing to its background content in the soil. The project results may be used in the framework of large-scaled pilot projects not only in Azerbaijan but also in other arid zones of all the Caspian countries. Goal and Objectives The main goal of this pilot project is to demonstrate the feasibility of and evaluate remediation technologies for cleaning up and rehabilitate contaminated site(s) on the Absheron peninsula in an environmentally friendly and economical manner. Within the framework of this environmental assessment and pilot clean up project we will: • Describe the actual ecological situation on a number of contaminated sites in Absheron and assess the technical, operational and economical aspects of appropriate clean-up technologies; • Perform a qualitative and quantitative assessment of the contaminants in soil, water and the atmosphere of the project site(s); • Demonstrate the feasibility by performing a small-scale pilot clean up of the contaminated site(s) and measure the effect; • Establish a strategy to clean and rehabilitate the site to a defined level of contaminants; • Contribute to enhancement of environmental management within the framework of the policies of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources; • Increase the ecological awareness in the population. | |
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| Project Manager: Mr. Nurlan Maharramov
Contact details Tel: +99412-4984610 Fax: +99412-988486 e-mail: casam@mail.ru |
