One person was killed and 30 oil workers were missing on Saturday after the rig they were working on in the Caspian Sea was engulfed by a fire, Azerbaijan’s state energy firm, State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) said... [A] storm had on Friday damaged a gas line on platform No. 10 in the deepwater Guneshli section of the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli offshore oil field, causing the fire, SOCAR said in a statement... Prosecutors have opened an inquiry into possible “breaches of fire safety regulations”... In 1994, the government of Azerbaijan signed an agreement to develop the vast Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli field with a consortium of foreign companies, including Britain’s BP, Norway’s Statoil and US oil and gas giants Chevron and Exxonmobil. The deepwater Guneshli section of the project began oil production in 2008. Platform No. 10 is operated solely by SOCAR. There have been a number of fatal incidents on offshore oil rigs in recent years...

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