Info on the Oil

Azerbaijan really started to flourish with the production of oil in the late 1800's. Baku City was leading the Soviet Union in industry until the start of World War II, and was the Soviet Unions chief petroleum center. Baku had a handle of one of the greatest volumes of freight in oil and oil products of any port in the Soviet Union. Oil drilling in the peninsula and offshore is Baku's major economic support of oil. Baku has many oil refineries and factories that produce oil-field products and a pipeline that almost reaches to Turkey.