On the third and fourth of November in Park Hyatt Baku Hotel Ecological Department of SOCAR organized conference on the theme "Rehabilitation of Contaminated Soils - suggested methods".
The directors of local and foreign companies, research institutes representatives and SOCAR officials participated in the conference. The general director of "Ekol Engineering Services" CJSC Soltan Aliyev and other officials have also taken part in the conference.
SOCAR's vice president Muhtar Babayev opened the conference, giving full and detailed information on the conducted works and achievements in the field of lands remediation.
In his speech Soltan Aliyev director general of "Ekol Engineering Services" pointed out particularly to experience, material and technical base and personnel potential of his company in the sphere of contaminated lands rehabilitation.
He continued his speech declaring that CJSC has seen a number of significant jobs in environmental conditions improvement and acted according to the decree and Complex Activities Plan issued by the president of Azerbaijan Republic on the 28
th of September 2006. For the beginning the works on lands remediation were commenced on the industrial areas of Bibieybat territory.
Since May of the current year "Ekol" CJSC began carrying out works on Bibieybat area. During this period 40 of 526 hectares of lands contaminated with ground waters, drilling cuttings and municipal wastes were successfully treated. The large lakes, formed as the result of wastewaters and ground waters were dried.
Soltan Aliyev pointed out that in these works realization and implementation the latest technologies and worldwide experience were applied. In general, "Ekol Engineering Services" CJSC has close cooperation with such companies as "Facet", "Oswald Shults", "Emscher Genossenschaft", "Projekt Engineerinq", "Projekt Engineerinq Wincker Gmbh", "Alfa-Laval", INTECHA, BP, Lukoil and others.
CJSC's general director marked out that the new methods and technologies research for contaminated lands remediation will be elaborated in future as well.
The participants of the conference considered it necessary to elaborate new offers for lands rehabilitation with the help of mechanical and biological methods and to expand research efforts of research institutes.
The conference terminated on the 4th of November.