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)