Three Workers Missing in Offshore Platform Accident

Three workers are missing after an accident at an offshore oil platform in the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan, Azeri state energy company SOCAR said on Friday.

SOCAR said a small cabin, where workers were living, was washed into the sea from the platform during a heavy storm.

"The accident did not affect the oil production process," the SOCAR spokesman, Nizameddin Guliyev, told reporters.

He said that a search-and-rescue operation was underway.

Four workers were killed and one went missing after a fire broke out on SOCAR's other oil and gas platform in the Caspian Sea in Oct. 2014.


(Reporting by Nailia Bagirova; writing by Margarita Antidze; editing by Jane Merriman)