CEP/Azerbaijan Oily Soil Clean Up

Project Title :

Oily Soil Clean up

Organisation :

Partner(s) :

TYPE PARTNERS HERE

Region :

Caspian (Azerbaijan)

Project Number :

MSGP-AZ05-04 one year starting from January 2005

one year starting January 2005

Financing (US$) :

CEP-MSGP:

Status :

Ongoing

URL :

Caspian Sea Environment Programme

Description :

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 technolog