PETROLEUM INSTALLATIONS AND INDUSTRIAL CONSTRUCTION IN THE BAKU AREA

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• Publication Date: March 3, 1954
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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e characteristics and operational volume of the petroleum processing plants in the
Azerbaijan SSR is superficial and general.
2. The main body of the petroleum processing plants in Baku is concentr
Shaumanovskiy district of the city., usually called the "Black Cityit. no
plans for construction of new petroleum processing plants in the city, owever,
there was a great deal of work in progress in modernizing and re-equipping existing
plants. For example, the Vano Shasta Cracking Plant, specializing in the production
of light petroleum products and high-Quality lubricating oils, has been Preatly
modernized.
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50X1 addition, in 1950the proposed construction of a new petroleum processing
50X1 plant on the islanct oy tem. have any data concern:'ng this plant.
3. Up to and including 1951 in the former village of Sumgait, (about 25-30 kilometers
northwest of Baku on the shore of the Caspian Sea) vast construction projects were
conducted and now Sumgait is considered a city (major industrial center). The
following projects ti sere completed in Sumgait by 1951:
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(a) "The Sumgait pipe-rolling plant", one of the largest in the Soviet Union.
This plant produces piping for prospecting, extracting and transporting
petroleum. The plant gets its steel from the area around Tbilisi.
(b) The large Sumgait Salt Chemical combine. This combine rocesses chemicals
required by the Baku petroleum processing j.ndus
(c) An asphalt highway about 30 kilometers long, from Baku to Sumgait.
(d) A large number of residential, public and administration buildings and
general enterprises.
During the last few years (1919-1951) there has been a particularly general expansion
of construction work on off-shore petroleum wells, oil-tanks and workers' settlements
50X1in the areas between I1'ich Ray and "Neftyanyye Kamni". In order to carry out these
operations a special trust called "Azmorneftestroy" (Azerbaijan Trust for Off-Shore
^ Petroleum Constrn(,-Finn work) was organized. It belongs to the "Azneft" organization.
work being carried out in reconstructing enterprises
y e -Lnis ry of the Merchant end River Fleet. Construction and Recon-
struction projects were carried out in the following areas
(a) Il'ich Bay area
This is the site of the extensive "I1'ich Bay" o, which belongs to
the "Stalinneft" Trust. Work on erecting equipmen or drilling new off-
shore oil wells is being carried out starting from Il'ich Bay and almost as
far as the Island of Nargen.
(b) Nargen Island
Work on erecting equipment for drilling new oil wells is carried out on
Nargen Island-and the area around it. An oil depot base (oil tanks) and
an oil-workers' settlement were built on the island. The island also
has a lighthouse in the form of a stone tower, 12 meters high. The white
light, a flashing light, is visible from a distance of 19 miles.
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Artem Island
Work on erecting equipment for drilling new oil wells is carried out on the
island as well as off-shore around the island. For the expansion of oil
fields in the area the "Artemneft" a special oil exploitation trust, was
set up. It belongs to the-"Aznefth' Union. An oil-workers' settlement is
also located on the island; the buildings are mainly white, one-and two-
story houses. There is also an oil depot base (steel tanks) on the
island. While there were four or five reservoirs in 1950 there are
presumably maMr more at the present time. The southern end of the island
is connected with the Apsheronskiy peninsula by an asphalt dike which
forms the beginning of the road to Baku.
(d) Zhiloy Island
Insecent years in the area on and around Zhiloy Island extensive work has
been done in erecting equipment for drilling new oil wells. There are a
great many derricks to be seen on and around the island and their number
is constantly growing. There is an oil-workers' settlement on the island
and also the"Zhiloy" light house. The lighthouse consists of a white two-
story structure on top of which an unpainted round stone tower, about 50
meters high, was raised. The lighthouse has two lights, one a white
flashing light visible from a distance of 19 miles, the other a red
constant light, visible from a distance of lL miles. The island is
protected from the South by a howling buoy with red flashing light. From
the North the island is also protected by a howling buoy with red flashing
light.
(e) "Neftyanyye Kamni"
The "NeftyanJye Kaxnni" area, off-shore oil fields, located 47-50 nautical
miles from Baku, on the shipping route, were very rapidly developed,
particularly since 1951. Since there are no islands in the area ("Neftyanyye
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Kamni" is a group of water-covered banks and shoals) the oil fields, oil
depot bases as.well as living quarters, public and administration buildings
belonging to the oil plant are all set up on metal scaffolds. These
scaffolds extend about 10-12 kilometers to the northwest from "Neftyanyye
Kamni". "Neftyanyye Kasnni" are guarded from the South by a howling buoy
which has a red flashing light. The oil fields starting from Zhiloy
Island and extending to "Neftyanyye Kamni" belong to the "GYURGYAN'NEET"
Trust which in turn belongs to the "AZNEFT" Union.
(f) The Bailov area
Extensive construction-work was and is being carried out in Bailov, in the
vicinity of the Nagornyy Park of Culture and Rest named after Kirov.
Residential structures are being erected for workers of the "Parizhskaya
Communal' Ship Repair Plant, the "Vano Stuxua" Shipbuilding and Repair Yard,
and also for oil-workers.
(g) The"Vano Sturua" Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Yard
Extensive work was done in rebuilding and expanding the "Vano Sturua"
Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Yard located in the southern part of the Bailor
district. As a result of reconstruction, the plant now ranks very high
as producer of powerful sea-going Diesel tugboats.
(h) The Zakfederatsiya Ship Repair Plant
The Zakfederatsiya Plant, located in the Shaumyanovskiy district of the
city (the "Black City") has been very considerably expanded and rebuilt.
As a result of reconstruction, the plant can now take on repair of large-
tonnage tankers (up to 10,000 tons). The plant has been equipped with a
large, covered slipway on which below-the-waterline ship repair work is
carried o u.t.s,.
A system of pipe lines is the basic means of transporting crude oil from the oil
fields to the refineries. In the overwhelming majority, the transportation of oil
is carried out as follows: Every oil field has an oil depot base. Pipelines extend
from the oil field depot bases to the oil depot bases located in the area where oil
refineries are concentrated. Sometimes pipelines lead directly from the oil fields
to the tanks of the oil refineries. However, the first mentioned method of crude oil
transportation predominates. One's attention is attracted by the presence of a
great number of oil depot bases located along the northern outskirts of "Black City"
and 'White City". All these oil depot bases are concentrated in the immediate
vicinity of the..refincries. Pipelines from the oil depot bases to the refineries
are laid out along the surface of the city streets. There is a very large number of
uncovered oil tares. Work to equip them with steel tops is in progress but is
progressing very slowly. Pra,`ically no use is made of railway tank cars to deliver
crude oil from the fields to the refineries.
Crude oil from oil fields located on islands and off-shore is taken to the refineries
by special means. Since these fields ("Neftyanyye Kamni"and the islands of Nargen and
Zhiloy) are not connected to the mainland by pipelines, the crude oil is brought in
as follows: Each oilfield has an oil depot base consisting of steel tanks located
on the islands or on scaffolds off-shore as the case may be. As the tanks become filed,
tankers come in from Baku., load the crude oil and then return to Baku where the Oil is
discharged into pier-stationed tanks, usually at docks No 33 and No 3L1.. From the pier-
stationed tanks the oil is piped to the refineries. The following tankers generally
are used to transport crude oil from the off-shore oilfields to Baku:
The SS "AT,FSHA D?,HAPARTDZE", capacity of 2500 tons,
the SS "SOYUZ VODNIKOV", capacity of 1600 tons, and
the SS "CHTMKENT", capacity of 1000 tons
Pipelines carry oil products from Baku to Batumi and to Rostov on the Don. Batumi is
linked to Baku by two pipelines. One carries kerosine to oil depot bases in Baturd
from where it is transferred to "Sovtanker" vessels for maritime transport. The
other pipeline is generally called the "Mazut" pipeline. This line carries oil to the
Stalin refinery in Batumi for refininge the type of oil products that
50X1ire sent to Rostov on the Don, but that they are dark oil products.
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of any other long-distance pipelines being. laid from Baku during the last 50X1
few years. Probably there was no need for them.
Transportation by rail accounts for a rather considerable part of the flow of oil
products from Baku. Petroleum is shipped directly from the oil depot bases at the
refineries and from bases located along the shores of the Bay of Baku in tank cars.
The oil products move chiefly to the North in the direction of Rostov on the Don.
Oil products are not shipped by rail to Astrakhan. Theoll depot bases of refineries
and the shore-stationed oil depot bases have a dense network of spur lines connected
with the mainline in order to safeguard shipment of oil products.
The greatest volume of oil products shipped out of Baku goes by sea. In 1951, 9 million
tons of different oil products were shipped from Baku by sea and of that amount
6 million tons went to Astrakhan. The organization responsible for moving this oil
is "Kasptanker", the Caspian State Petroleum Shipping Line. This line works closely
with the Azerbaijan administration of "GLAVNEFTESBYT" in handling petroleum shipments.
A large oil harbor located in "Black City" and partly in 14hite City" was built to
take care of maritime shipments of oil products in Baku. There are about 22 docks
in this oil harbor. They are docks Nos 32, 33, 34, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, Lis, 46, 47
48, 149, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57 and 53. These petroleum docks are equipped with
pumping stations for tanker loading, pipelines and apparatus for reeling fuel lines in
and out. The docks are made of wood. They are between 80 and 240 meters long and
between 8 and 20 meters wide. Water-depth around the piers varies from 3.5 to 7 meters.
There are oil depot bases located in the area of the petroleum docks for loading tankers.
Docks Nos 32, 33, 34, 39, 40, 44, 45 and 50 handle mostly dark oil products while docks
Nos 41, 42 and 143 handle mostly light oil products. In addition to the Bald? oil harbor,
there is also the Apsheronskiy oil harbor. From this harbor a minor quantity of oil
products, mostly crude, is shipped by sea, most of it to Makhachkala. Besides the
"GT.P.VNEFTESBYT" Azerbaijan administration, "Kasptanker" is also connected with the
fo1l..cuing organizations:
(a) "Reydtanker" in Astrakhan,
(b) The Makhachkala administration of "GLAVNEFTESBYT"?
(c) The Krasnovodsk administration of "GLAVNEFTESBYT".
The Composition of the "AZNEF"'' " Union is as follows:
A. General status.
Prospecting 2or oil and gas, extracting, refining and storing of oil products are
the responsibility of the Ministry of Petroleum Industries of the USSR. In
addition, to this Ministry, there are subordinate enterprises as well as construction
and installation organizations which serve the petroleum industry. The Ministry
of Petroleum Industries organizes and manages oi1."drilling and refining operations
by areas of the country through groups of trusts as follows:
(1) "GROZNEFT 'n Union - State Union for the Groznenskiy Petroleum Industry with
the following trusts:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
STAROGROZNFI'T' (Starogroznenskiy Petroleum)
GORSKNEFT' (Gorskiy Petroleum)
OKTYARR'NEFT' (Oktyabr'skiy Petroleum)
TASHKATAIfEFT' (Tashkalinskiy Petroleum)'
DAB T' (Dagestanskiy Petroleum)
(2)
"TATNEFT "' Union - State Union for the Tatar Petroleum Industry with the
following trusts:
(a)
(b)
BAVLYNEFT' (Bavlinskiy Petroleum)
ALIMETIEVNEFTI (A1'met'evskiy Petroleum)
(3)
"BASHNEFT'" Union - State Union for the Bashkir Petroleum Industry, witA
the following trusts:
(a) ISHI_MAYNEFT' (Ishimbayskiy Petroleum)-
(b) TIT(NAZYN PT' (Tuymazinski.y Petroleum)
(c) 0KTYABR'NEFT' (Oktyabr'skiy Petroleum)
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(4) "KUIBYSHEVNdEFT"' U _*2n State Union,for the Kuibyshev Petroleum Industry,
with the followin Ftt sis:
(a) KINEL'NEFT' (Kinel'skiy Petroleum)
(b) BUGURUSLANNEEFT' (Buguruslanskiy Petroleum)
(5) "UKRNEFT'" Union - State Union for the Ukrainian Petroleum Industry, with
the following, trusts:
(a) BORISLAVNEFT' (Borislavskiy Petroleum)
(b) ROMYNEFT' (Romynskiy Petroleum)`
(6) 11HOLOTOVNEFT1" Union - State Union for the Molotov Petroleum Industry, with
the following trusts:
(a) KRASNOKAMSKNEFT' (Kragnokamskiy Petroleum)
(b) POI,AZNINSKNF.FT' (Polazninskiy Petroleum)
(7) "KAZAKHSTAtF'T'" Union - State Union for the Kazakhstan Petroleum Industry,
with the following trusts:
a) 1 BA1EFT' (Embinskiy Petroleum)
b) MAKATNEFT' (Makatskiy Petroleum)
c) KOSCRAGYI,NEPT' (Koachagylskiy Petroleum)
(8) "TUPJQ 3;NNT 'T' It Union - State Union for the Tt rlaaen Petroleum Industry, with
the following trusts:
a NEBIT-DAGN 'P' (Nebit-Dagskiy Petroleum)
(b) CHET, ENNEF'T' (Chelekenakiy Petroleum)
(9) "KRASHODARNEFT'" Union - State Union for the Krasnodar Petroleum Industry,
with the following trusts:
(a) KHADYZHEYNL `T' (Khadyzheyskiy Petroleum)
(10) "UZBEKNEFT" Union - State Union for the Uzbek Petroleum Industry, with the
following trusts:
(a) ANDIZHANNEFT' (Andizhanakiy Petroleum)
(11) "SAKRALINNEFTI" Union - State Union for the Sakhalin Petroleum Industry, with
the f ollowi.ng .trusts :
(a) OKHA.N 'T' (Okhinskiy Petroleum)
"AZNE'T'", the State Union for the Azerbaijan Petroleum?Industry, is the largest
union in-the USSR Ministry of Petroleum Industry?3yetem. This union contained
12 major operational trusts. It is possible that the number of trusts has now
increased in connection with-the expansion of oil drilling activities in the
Azerbaijan SSR (for instance in the Kirovobadskiy and Naftalanskiy rayons).
To each trust belong'several oil fields and each Soil field in turn has a group
of oil wells or derricks. Tbus direct management of the Azerbaijan Petroleum
Industry rests with the "AZNFTn.Union. The union is headed by a chief, head
geologist, head engineer and deputies to the chief.. The trusts are run by
directors (Upravlyayuehchiye), heed geologist, head engineer and deputies of the
director. "AZ2WT "' contains the following trusts, each of which manages oil
fields, wells and drilling offices:
FIT
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(1) KIROVNE'T' (Petroleum trust of the Kirovskiy Rayon)
(2) MOLOTOV; +~.{T' (Petroleum trust of the Molotovskiy Rayon)
(3) KAGANOVICHNE T' (Petroleumm trust of the r'agnnovisks_y Rayon)
(I1) ST.ALTNNEFT' (Petroleum trust of the Stal_i.nskiy Rayon)
(5) LETTIN1=7' (Petroleum trust of the Leni_nskiy RLsyon)
(6) ORMITONIKIZENE T' (Petroleum trust of the Ordz(,-ionikid.zevskiy Rayon)
(7) RUZOVN!NFPT' (Petroleum trust of the I3tizovnynsl,,iy Rayon)
(8) ARTFCf1NEFT' (Petroleum trust of the Artem Island Rayon)
(9) AZIZBEKOVNE3+T' (Petroleum trust of the Azizbekovskiy Rayon)
(10) STAZJ\N'NEFT' (Petroleum trust of the Siazan'sk:i_y Rayon)
(11) F TFCHALJ.JTh T' (Petroleum trust of the Neftechala Rayon)
(12) GYURGYAAN +.+T' (Petroleum trust of the sea areas).
In addition to the above operational trusts, "AZ?N_FT' " also contains the following
trusts:
(1) AZNEF'I'FRAZVEDKA - the Azerbaijan trust for petroleum prospecting operation..
It carries out prospective work by locating now areas with beds of petroleum
layers.
(2) Exploratory off-shore drilling, exploratory operations in the sea.
(3) AZMORN.T+;F'TFSTROY - The Azerbaijan trust for m rl.ne petroleum construction.
This trust erects scaffolds, buildings, oil tanks etc in sea areas.
(.) AZNFFT MSH - The Azerbaijan trust for marine petroleum construction, which
supplies oil fields and enterprises of the petroleums industry with equip-
ment, machines and tools.
(5) A7,ENERC~0 IONT~~ZI 1' + ' T' - The Azerbaijan trust for installation of petroleum
power equipment; it works on installations of all kinds of power-stations
and power equipment.
(6) A7.TN+''' !"TESTROY - The Azerbaijan trust for petroleum construction. Carries
out construction work for enterprises of the petroleum industry and shore-
based oil fields.
('7) AZ?'T.FFT'1 C,FOiIZIKk - the Azerbaijan trust for geological-physical research.
Carries out research work in oil field areas and develops economical
drilling methods under various soil conditions.
(8) The Azerbaijan "GLAV1,7FTFSI3YT" Administration. This organization is not
subordinate to t'AZN17Tn but directly to the Main Administration for
Marketing of Petroleum of the USSR Ministry of Petroleum Industries. This
organization. maintains records, depots and markets petroleum products which
are earmarked for distribution to the custo iers.
(9) Operations of petroleum refineries in Azerbaijan are directed by the
t'A7TTFF7,ZAVOOY" Union (Union of Azerbaijan -)etroleum refineries).
others as well. This list can be enlarged by adding information drawn from the
Soviet press.
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