The Oil Rocks, a full town on the Caspian Sea 42 kilometers east off the Absheron peninsula. The Oil Rocks lies on metal piers constructed in 1949 to extract oil from the shallow water portion of the Absheron around the Black Rocks, a rock formation above a sea surface.
- Categories: Lifestyle & Leisure, Environmental Issues, Science & Technology
- Location: Azerbaijan
- Event date: 01.08.1986
- Date published: 22.08.2009
- Author: Redkin
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: DP86-1585, 6x6 slide
- Media: JPEG, 3565x3543px, 3.1Mb