Baku. Nijat Mustafayev – APA-Economics. Azerbaijan prepares for construction of semi-submersible drilling rigs, said the Vice-President of State Oil company of Azerbaijan Khoshbakht Yusifzade.
According to him, the first semi-submersible drilling rig will be constructed in 2014: “lack of drilling rigs delays exploration works in Absheron and Makchivan fields”.
Note that SOCAR plans to construct 4 semi-submersible drilling rigs and the worth of these rigs will make $4 bln.