Fire at Azeri oil field well extinguished - Azerbaijan's SOCAR

BAKU, Sept 27 (Reuters) - A fire at Azerbaijan's Guneshlioil field was extinguished on Tuesday, the state energy companySOCAR said.

SOCAR said on Monday a large gas leak at one of the wellsduring maintenance caused a fire. All 49 workers had beenevacuated from the platform. No casualties were reported.

"The gas leakage was stopped and a fire was completelyextinguished in early hours on Tuesday," SOCAR and the country'sEmergency Ministry said in a joint statement.

In December last year, 30 workers were killed on one ofSOCAR's offshore rigs during a large storm. (Reporting by Nailia Bagirova; Writing by Margarita Antidze;Editing by Louise Heavens)