Azerbaijan’s non-ferrous metals: a new industrial map from ore reserves to global markets

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...

Azeri–Chirag–Gunashli, the offshore field complex that has served as Azerbaijan’s principal source of oil revenue for nearly three decades, is entering a new economic phase. Rather than pursuing rapid production growth, the BP-led consortium is...

The merger of Azeripek and Azerkhalcha is intended to bring raw-material production, processing, craft heritage and exports under a single state roof. Yet the industry’s main problem is not its organisational structure but its weak economics....