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the project and to provide services which exceed
Client’s expectations. Here below the main opera-
ting centers.

Tecnimont Private Limited - TCMPL
(Maire Tecnimont Group)

The detailed engineering was executed by the fully
owned subsidiary Tecnimont Private Limited (TCM-
Operating Centers PL, formerly known as TICB) with headquarter in
Mumbai in Western India. A team of skilled and ex-
Maire Tecnimont Group (MET) adopted a multicen- perienced engineers was involved in the detail de-
ter strategy to execute the activities related to both sign engineering phase and Project / Cost Control
the PP and HDPE plants. Such strategy is coordi- discipline.
nated and led by the Project Director coupled with All procurement services were executed in TCMPL
the wise use of the I&CT tools among the Group. by a dedicated and focused Procurement Team led
This approach aims at optimizing the operations of by the VP Procurement of TCMPL. The full integra-

Historical glance and oil heritage in Azerbaijan

The cultural link between Azerbaijan and oil comes from A turning point
the history. in oil production
Azerbaijan’s oil was repeatedly described in the wor- was reached in
ks of medieval scholars and travelers, but at the time the 19th centu-
oil was only used as a household fuel and for medi- ry, specifically
cinal and military purposes. Azerbaijan oil resources in 1847 when
were already mentioned a couple of centuries earlier the first oil wells
than the furniture below by the famous traveler Mar- were drilled in
co Polo, indicating the use of the oil in Azerbaijan Bibiheybat and
for treatment purposes and to export it to adjacent then Balakhany
countries by means of
An inscription on a stone recently found in an oil well State of the Art
in Balakhany tells that the well was drilled by foreman technology.
Mr. Allahyar Mammad Nuroghlu in 1594. Azerbaijan was
the world leader Azerbaijan, a former Soviet republic, was
in oil produc- founded in 1991. It has a population of al-
tion in early XX most 10 millions. The capital is Baku. Azer-
century and the baijan has vast oil and gas fields.
production of oil
strongly supported the victory of the Soviet Union
in World War II and made oil an extremely important
factor in the national economy. Azerbaijan was also
the world’s first offshore oil producer. On November
7, 1949 Azerbaijan and the Caspian Sea became
known all over the world with the discovery of the
Neft Dashlari (“Oil Rocks”) field 40 km offshore and
90 km from Baku.
On September 20 1994, the famous “Contract of the
th,
Century” was signed by eleven oil companies from
In the small but highly valued museum “Poldi Pezzoli” in Milano there
is a piece of furniture dated around 16 century with several drawers, eight Countries. The Contract boosted the confiden-
th
all ivory engraved. One of them represents the Caspian see: no men- ce of the world’s countries in Azerbaijan and encou-
tioning of Azerbaijan but a clear indication of Noah’s Arch located very raged oil companies to invest in the Country.
close to the current position of Azerbaijan.

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