Millions of tonnes left outside the economy: why Azerbaijan is struggling to turn waste into a resource

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...

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....