Neft Daşları

Daşları Neft (Russian Нефтяные Камни / Neftjanyje Kamni, literally: oil stones ) is an Azerbaijani oil rig in the Caspian Sea.

The rig was built in 1948 as the world's first offshore oil platform of the former Soviet Union on stilts in the Caspian Sea. It has a distance of 45 km from the coast of the peninsula Abseron ( on the Azerbaijani capital Baku is located ). Due to a reef the average ocean depth is only 20 meters. The oil reserves are located at a depth of 1100 meters below the sea.

For oil production facility includes a built since 1958, elevated settlement which over blocks of flats, shops, food industry, two power plants (250 kilowatts ), cultural sites and park features. In the first phase came next storey and 16 -storey residential buildings. Later, 1966-1975, several residential buildings with five and one were added with nine bullets. With its 5000 inhabitants and 300 km of roads Neft Daşları is the largest drilling platform in the world. The foundation of the main settlement form sunken ships, including the world's first oil tanker Zoroaster. In the heyday of the 1960s existed within a radius of 30 kilometers around the settlement in 2000 drilling platforms, which were connected with viaducts for the truck traffic.

Parts of the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough were filmed on a replica of a portion of this oil rig in the Exterior tank at Pinewood Studios in 1999. Because of the special effects ( explosions ) turning was too dangerous at the original location.