At Bibi-Heybat's working port, retired Azerbaijani ships are left moored rather than promptly scrapped, slowly rusting at their berths. The site shares its shoreline with the well that produced the world's first mechanically drilled oil, in 1846.
Bibi-Heybat Ship Graveyard
Decommissioned Azerbaijani vessels left rusting at a working Caspian port, on the same shoreline as the world's first drilled oil well.
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