By Nailia Bagirova
BAKU, Dec 7 (Reuters) - The bodies of six oil workersmissing from an Azeri oil platform in the Caspian Sea thatcaught fire on Friday have been found, the state energy companySOCAR said on Monday.
It said a helicopter search for the other missing wouldcontinue at daybreak. Out of the 62 people who were on theGuneshli oil rig when the fire started, one was confirmed deadon Sunday and 33 were rescued.
Efforts were also continuing to try to put the fire out. "Asof now, at least one well is on fire," said BalamirzaAlirahimov, chief engineer at Azneft, SOCAR's production union.
The fire started on Friday after a storm caused some of theplatform's production equipment to collapse, damaging a naturalgas pipeline.
The platform had daily production of 920 tonnes of oil and1.08 million cubic metres of gas. But it is also a transit pointfor about 60 percent of SOCAR's oil production, most of it fromother fields, which can for now no longer be pumped to shore.
The British oil major BP, which operates a number offields in the Caspian, said on Monday its operations inAzerbaijan were not affected by the outage.
SOCAR also said the search had stopped for three workers whowere swept into the sea in an accident on another oil platformon Friday. (Writing by Margarita Antidze; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
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