Caspian Sea

ASHGABAT (TCA) — Iran has asked for “immediate” explanation from Turkmenistan after the Central Asian country's border guards opened fire on four Iranian fishermen in the Caspian Sea and killed two of them, Iran's PressTV reported. "We are strongly protesting the indiscreet action of Turkmenistan's ...

Wednesday's report says the incident happened on Tuesday night when the four young fishermen were sailing near the edge of Iranian territorial waters in the Caspian Sea. The report did not identify the fishermen but said they ignored frequent warnings by Iranian authorities to observe the borderline.

Just like in my work on the floater segment, the primary sources used were drillers' fleet status reports, the InfieldRigs database and MarineTraffic. In this article, we will discuss the supply fundamentals of the key jack-up market – Middle East & Caspian Sea. Since there are many rigs involved, I decided to ...

The Convention on the status of the Caspian Sea will be signed this year, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on March 15. “With a high degree of certainty, I can announce that the convention will be signed at the 5th summit, which will be held in Kazakhstan this year,” the FM said, RIA Novosti ...

The Caspian Fleet's flagship - the Tatarstan - has conducted live firing exercises at sea, head of the Southern Military District's press service Vadim Astafyev said. "The crew of the Tatarstan missile ship has successfully hit air, sea and shore targets with various types of shipboard weapons, including the ...

The missile ship Tatarstan of the Caspian Flotilla, left the home station in Dagestan to carry out artillery and air defence training at sea, says press center of RF Defence Ministry. The ship has sailed in the Caspian Sea in course of the K-2 task complex. In course of the training, the crew will practise ...

ROSTOV-ON-DON, March 13. /TASS/. The Caspian Fleet's flagship - the Tatarstan - has conducted live firing exercises at sea, head of the Southern Military District's press service Vadim Astafyev told TASS. Read also. Best ships of Russia's Caspian Flotilla. "The crew of the Tatarstan missile ship has ...

The five-year deal, defined as having a value of between $150 million and $300 million, covers the British operator's Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli and Shah Deniz fields in the Caspian Sea. The UK-based contractor will provide a life-of-field support vessel, equipped with ROVs, to perform inspection, survey, ...

ASHGABAT (TCA) — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan and the State Enterprise for the Caspian Sea under the President of Turkmenistan jointly with the International Ocean Institute (IOI) are holding an international seminar "The Caspian Sea — Sustainable Development and Management", ...

Turkmenistan is completing construction of a new international sea port in Turkmenbashi city designed to provide a higher level of trade and economic cooperation among the countries of Asia and Europe, according to the appeal of the Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on the occasion of ...

The workshop entitled "Caspian Sea - sustainable development and governance" has been launched in Turkmenistan's Avaza National Tourist Zone. Representatives of the corresponding organizations of Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation are taking part in the event ...

Three digital water level measurement stations were installed in Noshahr Bay, Amir Abad and Anzali Port in northern Iran on Sunday to keep a close watch on the Caspian Sea's fluctuations and its predicted progression toward the shores. The Caspian Sea waterline is predicted to rise up to 42cm over the ...

Ministers of the Caspian littoral states agreed on the draft convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, Russian Foreign Ministry informed on March 2. "The 50th meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on drafting of the convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, dedicated to the implementation ...

Ministers of the Caspian littoral states agreed on thedraft convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, Russian Foreign Ministry informedon March 2. "The 50th meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on drafting of the convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, dedicated to the implementation of ...

The workshop entitled "Caspian Sea - sustainable development and governance" will be held in Turkmenistan's Avaza National Tourist Zone on March 5-16, 2018, the Turkmen Dovlet Habarlary (TDH) state news agency reported March 2. Representatives of the corresponding organizations of ...

It is one of the biggest seaports on the Caspian Sea and will provide a significant logistic base connecting Europe to Asia. The project is a collaboration between Turkey and Turkmenistan and is being constructed by GAP İnşaat. A major objective of the project is to develop a modern marine fleet equipped ...

ABERDEEN -- Total E&P Absheron B.V. (Total), acting as operator for and on behalf of a consortium presently composed of Total E&P Absheron B.V. (50%) and Socar Absheron LLC (50%) has tasked HydraWell to execute a part of plug & abandonment campaign at Absheron field, in the Caspian Sea.

Sea tourism, one of the most dynamic, high-tech, high-yield spheres in the world, is becoming a new branch of the tourism industry in the Land of Fire. Azerbaijani citizens and foreign guests may travel by a cruise ship along the Caspian Sea in summer, Minister of Culture and Tourism Abulfas Garayev told ...

Today, on March 7, members of the Kazakh parliament have approved ratification of an agreement on transit of US special cargos via the territory of Kazakhstan to Afghanistan. Kazakh Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov announced that the agreement between Kazakhstan and the USA on commercial ...

The long-awaited cooperation on the Caspian Sea in the energy sector, which became the main topic for discussion between Azerbaijan and Iran, takes on a clearer outline as the Caspian states are expected to adopt the convention on the legal status of the sea this year. The legal status of the Caspian ...

President Hassan Rouhani has said that mutual respect and trust between the governments of Iran and Azerbaijan have developed over the recent years. “The trust between the governments of the two countries have grown in the recent years. Mutual respect has increased and the sides have been ...

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov during talks with his Iranian counterpart in Ashgabat noted that the two countries are active participants of negotiations to determine the legal status of the Caspian Sea. A legal framework has been formed to regulate the activities of coastal states, new ...

The Caspian seal is one of the smallest members of the earless seal family and unique in that it is found exclusively in the brackish Caspian Sea. They are found not only along the shorelines, but also on the many rocky islands and floating blocks of ice that dot the Caspian Sea. In winter, and cooler parts of ...

A helicopter of Azerbaijan's Ministry of Emergency Situations and two coast guard vessels of the State Border Service have started searches for a missing crew member of the TARADIS cargo vessel, sailing under Iran's flag in the Caspian Sea, the Ministry of Emergency Situations said in a message Feb.

Azerbaijan's State Border Service (SBS) has prevented the smuggling of drugs to the country via the Caspian Sea. On February 23, 2018, the SBS Coastal Guard technical-observation post in Astara spotted an unidentified boat cross the sea border and return shortly after. During inspection, packages of ...

The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the 50th meeting of the Special Working Group on the development of the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea was held at the level of deputy foreign ministers of the five Caspian coastal countries in Moscow from February 26 to March 1, ...