Azerbaijan has an unusual volcano of mud volcanoes. Sometimes erupt with spectacular results, but generally not dangerous, unless you happen on a bad time to be there. Every twenty years or more, mud volcanoes explode with great force, spitting flames hundreds of feet into the sky, spilling thousands of tons of mud in the surrounding area. In an eruption, the fire could be seen from a distance of 15 kilometers on the day of the explosion, and is still on, although at a lower level, three days later.
It is estimated that 300 of about 700 craters of mud found in Gobustan, Azerbaijan and the Caspian Sea. In Azerbaijan, driven bursts of sludge in the reservoir that is connected to the surface even during periods of inactivity, when water seeps deep origin is still showing. Seepage of mud temperature to 2-3 ° C above ambient temperature. In Azerbaijan in the bowels of the earth to find oil is relatively easy. Simply search for mud volcano bursts originating from the mud volcano was almost certainly there are oil reserves. There, the mountain of mud was used as an indicator of potential hydrocarbon or oil and gas reserves in the bowels of the earth.
Not surprisingly, the region Lokbatan, Azerbaijan, which has a lot of mud volcanoes, many are also encountered oil extraction facility that was founded 50 years ago. Indeed, in Azerbaijan and also in the Caspian Sea there are hundreds of volcanic mud. "The area around the mud volcano is always rich in oil," says Adriano Mazzini, a researcher from the University of Oslo in Norway, which some time ago came researching the phenomenon of volcanic mud in Porong, Sidoarjo, Indonesia. Therefore many geologists who actually look for mud volcano to find the source of oil.
