Azerbaijan’s Non-Oil Economy Offset the Decline in the Oil and Gas Sector, but Growth Slowed

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...

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...