SOCAR between revenue and profit: the price of becoming a global energy group

Why Is Azerbaijan Failing to Make Full Use of Its Iodine Potential? Azerbaijan stands out globally for its iodine reserves and ranks among the five largest producers. Yet output is declining, export revenue is shrinking even faster, and exports rely...

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,...