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As of 2017, [[Azerbaijan]] produced a range of metals and industrial minerals, including [[aluminum]], [[bentonite]], [[copper]], [[gold]], [[iodine]], [[limestone]], [[silver]] and [[steel]].<ref>((Cite web |last=Safirova |first=Elena |date=2023-10-11 |title=The Mineral Industry of Azerbaijan |url=https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/atoms/files/myb3-2017-18-Azerbaijan.pdf ))</ref>

Azerbaijan's importance as a world mineral producer, however, was based on its [[petroleum]] extracting industry. The country has been a significant oil producer for more than a century, but recent focus has been on developing offshore resources in the [[Caspian Sea]]. Production from the country’s [[Soviet Union|Soviet]]-era fields are in decline, but since independence, foreign direct investment in offshore fields had revitalized the oil sector through the development of large-scale new projects and the refurbishment of older ones. In 2005, Azerbaijan had signed more than 20 major agreements to develop oilfields with approximately 30 companies from 15 countries.<ref name=usgs>Richard M. Levine and Glenn J. Wallace. [http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/country/2006/myb3-2006-af.pdf "The Mineral Industries of the Commonwealth of Independent States"]. ''2005 Minerals Yearbook''. [[U.S. Geological Survey]] (December 2007). ''This article incorporates text from this U.S. government source, which is in the [[public domain]].''</ref>

As of 2017, oil production has entered a decline, falling by 5.6% since 2016. Crude petroleum has declined in Azerbaijan since 2010, when the nation produced a record 50.8 MT. Production in 2017 was only 38.7 MT.

In 2005, [[Oil extraction]] and refining accounted for more than 75% of the value of industrial production. The oil extraction and refining sectors and the [[metallurgy]] and metal fabrication sectors employed more than 60,000 people in 2005. The country was becoming a major producer of oil, producing far more than it consumed, but its [[natural gas]] production in 2005 was still significantly below its consumption. The country was increasing its steel products production at the [[Baku]] Steel company, a privately owned company that produced steel products from steel scrap.<ref name="usgs" />

==Production==
In 2005, production increased for practically all mineral commodities. Crude petroleum production increased by more than 43% compared with that of 2004. The country was developing its steel industry, although it is still on a small scale.<ref name=usgs/>

==Trade==
Fuels accounted for 76% of the value of exports in 2005. The country’s major export was crude petroleum, almost all of which was sold on world markets rather than supplied to other [[Commonwealth of Independent States|CIS]] countries. Other mineral exports included petroleum refinery products and alumina. The country imported a variety of mineral commodities, including natural gas.<ref name=usgs/>

==Mineral resources==
Azerbaijan’s major mineral wealth is its oil and gas reserves. Offshore [[hydrocarbon]] structures in the Caspian Sea accounted for most of the country’s oil and gas production. Azerbaijan’s proven [[crude oil]] reserves were estimated to range from 7 billion to 13 billion barrels (Gbbl) [or from about 950 million metric tons (Mt) to 1.8 billion metric tons (Gt)] based on various industry journals and Government sources. The State Oil Company of the [[Azerbaijan]] Republic (SOCAR) has estimated that proven reserves are 17.5 Gbbl (about 2.4 Gt) using the Soviet reserve classification system. This evaluation was not based on market economy criteria and may include resources that are not economically viable. Estimates of natural gas reserves also vary. According to the Oil & Gas Journal, Azerbaijan has proven natural gas reserves of roughly 30 trillion cubic feet (about 850 billion cubic meters, and BP p.l.c. estimates that the country has 48 trillion cubic feet (about 1.4 trillion cubic meters) of proven gas reserves.<ref name=usgs/>

==Outlook==
Although some effort has been made to promote balanced mineral development of all the country’s [[Mineral resources of Azerbaijan|mineral resources]], the country’s economic development has depended primarily on the development of its large offshore oil and gas resources. These resources are expected to be the country’s chief source of revenue for the coming decades.<ref name=usgs/>

In 2004, Azerbaijan exported approximately ((convert|211000|oilbbl/d|m3/d)) of oil. Exports are expected to more than double to ((convert|478000|oilbbl/d|m3/d|abbr=on)) in 2006 and to reach as high as ((convert|1.1|Moilbbl/d|m3/d)) by 2008.

Azerbaijan was a net natural gas importer in 2005. The country is expected to become a significant gas exporter following the development of the Shah Deniz natural gas deposit, which is considered to be one of the world’s largest natural gas field discoveries of the past 20 years. According to [[BP]] (the project operator), Shah Deniz has potential recoverable reserves of about 15 trillion cubic feet (about 424 billion cubic meters) of natural gas and ((convert|600|Moilbbl|m3))—about 82 Mt] of condensate. Other industry and trade sources have estimated that the field contains as much as ((convert|35|Tcuft|km3)) of gas. The field is being developed by the Shah Deniz consortium, whose members include BP, LukAgip, [[National Iranian Oil Company]] (NICO) International, SOCAR, Statoil ASA of Norway, TotalFinaElf, and Türkiye Petrolleri Anonim Ortaklig (TPAO) of Turkey.<ref name=usgs/>

In the first phase of the Shah Deniz field’s development, production of natural gas for export was expected to begin in late 2006. In the second phase, according to BP, the Shah Deniz project could produce an additional ((convert|1|Tcuft|km3)) per year of natural gas by as early as 2015.<ref name=usgs/>

Although Azerbaijan lacks any infrastructure for the export of natural gas, efforts were underway to secure export routes and customers for gas deliveries beginning in 2006. The main conduit for Azerbaijan’s natural gas exports would be the [[South Caucasus Pipeline]], also known as [[Baku]]-[[Tbilisi]]-Erzurum, which would run parallel to the Baku-T’bilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline for most of its route before connecting to the Turkish gas pipeline network near the town of [[Horasan]] in [[Turkey]]. Pipeline construction began in late 2004 and was scheduled to be completed during the first quarter of 2007. The pipeline was expected to carry ((convert|233|Gcuft|m3)) per year initially; this volume could be increased later to up to ((convert|700|Gcuft|m3)) per year with the future addition of compression stations.<ref name=usgs/>

With the new pipeline infrastructure in place, [[Shah Deniz]] would be capable of producing approximately ((convert|350|Gcuft|m3)) per year of natural gas by 2009. Supplies of natural gas from Shah Deniz and associated gas from the Azeri Chirag Gunashli (AGC) and the Bakhar-2 projects are expected to make Azerbaijan self-sufficient in natural gas and to result in significant export revenues.<ref name=usgs/>

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