170,000 Tonnes in Reserves, 200 Tonnes in Output

Azerbaijan is accustomed to exporting energy measured in barrels and cubic metres. Now Baku intends to export electrons as well. Yet turning the winds of the Caspian and the sunshine of Karabakh into a new source of revenue will be more complicated...

Reserves are large — the question is the depth of processing The sector’s real scale: how much metal? In the statistical classification, copper, silver, alunite and gold ores form a separate non-ferrous metal ores category. This requires mining and...

Baku has built sorting and waste-to-energy infrastructure, but the country remains better at counting the rubbish it removes than the raw materials it returns to production. Without regional logistics, separate collection and transparent statistics,...

Azerbaijani crude is becoming an increasingly scarce commodity. That is both raising its value and threatening its future. Azeri Light, exported mainly through the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline, remains an attractive feedstock for Mediterranean...