WHAT  IS  GEOLOGY  INSTITUTE  OF  AZERBAIJAN ?

General Information

Geology Institute of Azerbaijan (GIA) was formed in 1938 and now it is the largest scientific institution in Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) wholly occupied with fundamental researches, as well as applied developments in various fields of geology, geophysics, geochemistry, ecogeology and other Earth sciences. There are 23 research departments & 2 laboratories, Natural-Historical Museum after H. Zardabi, Centre of geodynamic research & seismic monitoring (formed in 2003 by CRDF grant support, USA),  National Data Centre (formed in 2002 within Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban-Treaty Organization ratified by Azerbaijan on the 2nd February, 1999), 13 functional subdivisions of scientific service in the Institute structure. The Institute’s staff is 267 scientific workers, among them 157 Ph.D & Dr.Sc., 4-full members & 9-associate members of ANAS.

Institute’s focus

Institute’s areas of core competencies include the following:

• Study of hydrocarbon systems & basin modeling.
• Study of mud volcanism phenomenon.
• Complex study of the Caspian sea geology.
• Study of ore & non-ore economic minerals fields.
• Theory & practice of oil & gas fields development.
• Environmental geology.
• Analysis & management of natural & technogenic hazards.

Technical and scientific areas:

• geology & oil & gas geochemistry;
• petrology & metallogeny;
• regional geology;
• physics of Earth;
• theory & practice of oil & gas fields development

Valuable areas for technology offerings

• innovation products of geological content – atlases, maps, database & so on;
• method of study, quantitative & qualitative assessments of neotectonic movements;
• technology for products obtaining from geomaterials applied in building & other branches of industry;
• ecologically pure geotechnologies of metal production for economic mineral fields;
• computer programs (software) for processing of geological-geophysical data;
• new methods & technologies for the increase of oil recovery of beds & wells production;
• geological models & methods of prediction for changing properties of natural oil & gas reservoirs, etc

Scientific cooperation and technology transfer

GIA collaborates with international scientific centres and institutes: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (US); University of Utah, Salt Lake City (US), University of South Carolina, Columbia (US); University of Toronto (CA); University of Birmingham (UK); University of Aberdeen (UK); Universitè  P.&M. Curie, Paris (FR); Friedrich-Schiller Universität, Jena (DE); GeoForschungZentrum, Potsdam (DE);  Delft University of Technology (NL); Pavia University (IT); Bolonya University, Bologna (IT); Sofia University (BU); Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (RO); Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana (SI); Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow (PL);Ankara University (TU); Moscow State University (RU); Georgian State University, Tbilisi (GE), and others.

Development of scientific basis necessary for successful oil and gas field exploration appears to be the area where GIA is uniquely positioned in Azerbaijan to take advantage of the oil boom in the Caspian Sea. Institute has longterm experience of work based on contracts with leading oil companies in the world, such as BP, ConocoPhilips, Statoil, ChevronTexaco, ExxonMobil, Shell, Unocal, Total, Elf, Agip, LUKOIL and others.

Contact Details

Akif A. Ali-Zadeh

Director, Dr.Sc., Prof., Academician of ANAS

29A H. Javid Av., Baku, AZ1143, Azerbaijan

Phone: (99 412) 4975286

Fax:  (99 412) 4975285

E-mail: gia@azdata.net

Web-site: www.gia.az