Azerbaijan, Baku, 17 March / Trend / In January and March 2008, the oil and gas producing units of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), operating in the offshore and onshore fields, produced approximately 1.9mln tons of oil, or the same extracted in the same period in 2007, SOCAR said.
The highest volume of oil production was from 28 May OGPU, which was developed in the shallow-water Gunashli field at 1.3mln tons of oil, or 1.1% less than in 2007.
Oil production by the relevant enterprises and operating companies of SOCAR in the first quarter of 2008 are as follows:
| Oil and Gas Production Units (OGPU) | January-March 2007 | January-March 2008 | Differences in % |
| 28 May | 449511.287 | 1319797,433 | 98,9 |
| Oil Rocks | 77922 | 230826 | 100,5 |
| Narimanov | 37685 | 113470 | 102,5 |
| Balakhanineft | 17805 | 53458 | 97,3 |
| Gum Adasi | 5684 | 15830 | 107,9 |
| Absheronneft | 14593 | 41883 | 103,4 |
| Bibi-Heybat | 10184 | 29454 | 88,3 |
| Amirov | 6635 | 19395 | 99,7 |
| Tagiyev | 5813 | 16903 | 97,4 |
| Siyazanneft | 4291 | 11546 | 93,7 |
| Muradkhanli | 2550 | 7480 | 109,2 |
| All OPGU of Azneft | 632673.287 | 1860042,433 | 99,3 |