A 1971 Proposal on Utilizing Casing-Head Gas: Application by the Head of Glavgaz and Protocol of the Technical Meeting at Gosplan of the Azerbaijan SSR

Two archival documents from 1971 on the utilization of casing-head gas in Soviet Azerbaijan: A handwritten application by A. M. Abdullaev, Head of Glavgaz of the Azerbaijan SSR, dated 6 June 1971 and addressed to the Head of the Kaspmorneft Association; The protocol of a technical meeting at Gosplan of the Azerbaijan SSR dated 4 May 1971. Low-pressure casing-head gas from the Marine Collection Point at Cape Sangachaly was being vented into the atmosphere because there was no pipeline to transport it. The proposed solution required no capital expenditure: a line valve near the former Kyanizadag portable gas distribution station and a jumper connecting the Sangachaly pipeline to the Alibayramly (now Shirvan) – Karadag gas pipeline. The deposit contains scans of both documents (from A. M. Abdullaev’s personal archive), a Russian transcription, English and Azerbaijani translations, two schematic maps showing the situation before and after the proposed measure, and an introductory article in English, Azerbaijani and Russian. The documents differ in some figures (gas volume, economic effect); the discrepancies are preserved without correction. The maps are schematic and were prepared with Claude (Anthropic) from the text of the documents. The deposit serves as a source and supplement to the monograph Gasification and Operation of Gas Economy in Azerbaijan (1955—1970) (Zenodo, 2025).