ABSTRACT

Baku Bayil Yard is located to the south of Baku-Azerbaijan and is allocated as a fabrication yard for top portion of oil platforms in Caspian Sea. The owner is AIOC who is a consortium founded for Azerbaijan Oil Contracts led by BP (British Petroleum). All engineering and site works were executed under the supervision of Halliburton-KBR who was the consultant to the owner. The main contractor was a joint venture between AMEC-UK and AZFENTurkish-Azerbaijan Company. This paper presents the geotechnical works designed for the Baku-AZFEN yard site as part of the site infrastructure construction.