Oil Rocks
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Neft Daşları Neft Daşları |
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| Coordinates: 40°12′N 50°48′E / 40.200°N 50.800°ECoordinates: 40°12′N 50°48′E / 40.200°N 50.800°E | |
| Country |
 Azerbaijan
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| City | Baku |
| Raion | Khazar |
| Municipality | Çilov-Neft Daşları |
| Population (2008) | |
| • Total | 2,000 |
| Time zone | AZT (UTC+4) |
| • Summer (DST) | AZT (UTC+5) |
Neft Daşları (Azerbaijani: Neft Daşları, Russian: Нефтяные Камни, also known as the Oil Rocks) is an industrial settlement in Baku, Azerbaijan. The settlement forms part of the municipality of Çilov-Neft Daşları in the Khazar raion. It lies 100 km (62 mi) away from the Azerbaijani capital Baku, and 55 km (34 mi) from the nearest shore in the Caspian Sea. A full town on the sea, it was the first oil platform in Azerbaijan, and the first operating offshore oil platform in the world, incorporating numerous drilling platforms. It is featured in the Guinness Book as the world's first offshore oil platform.
The settlement began with a single path out over the water and grew into a system of paths and platforms built on the back of ships sunk to serve as the Neft Daşları's foundation. The most distinctive feature of Neft Daşları is that it is actually a functional city with a population of about 2,000 and over 300 km (190 mi) of streets built on piles of dirt and landfill.
The settlement was originally named as Chernie Kamni ("Black Stones"), but was later renamed to Neft Daşları ("Oily Rocks"), replacing the allusion to the black colour of oil with a reference to the substance itself.
The first large-scale geological study of the area was conducted in 1945-1948. The settlement of Neft Daşları was built in 1949 after oil was discovered there at 1,100 meters beneath the Caspian Sea and it became the world's first offshore oil platform.
By 1951, the Neft Daşları was ready for production, equipped with all of the infrastructure needed at the time. Drilling platforms were erected, oil tanks installed, and docks with enclosures for ships were built. The first oil from the Neft Daşları was loaded into a tanker in same year.
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