Azerbaijani President familiarized with construction and installation work at West Chirag platform - PHOTOS

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has today inspected construction and installation work at the West Chirag platform.

The Head of State was told that the foundation stone for the platform was laid in 2010. The West Chirag platform has the heaviest jacket ever built in the Caspian. The jacket has a total weight of 18,200 tonnes (which includes 1500 tonnes of floatation tanks) and is about 185 metres high. It is comprised of 13 piles (12 plus one spare) with a total weight of 6700 tons, seven risers, eight j-tubes and ten caissons. Over 2000 people including sub contractors and specialist vendors, were involved in the construction works. Some 96% of the workforce was Azerbaijan nationals. The jacket was built by the local company BOS Shelf, now fully owned by SOCAR.

President Ilham Aliyev met constructors here to praise their work.

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