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BP-Azerbaijan to complete some ACG construction works in 2009-2010

24 August 2009 08:53 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Nijat Mustafayev â€“ APA-Economics. Following installation and commissioning of the South and North manifold water injection systems which allowed starting-up water injection at Deepwater Gunashli (DWG) last summer, BP-Azerbaijan has completed further installations at DWG East manifold and related subsea umbilical distribution skid (SUDS).
â€œTo date, we have completed the installation and commissioning of the water injection systems for a total of eight DWG wells. The installation and commissioning of the systems at further five wells is scheduled to be completed by the second quarter of 2010 - two of these are DWG East manifold wells and three are at North and South. Altogether, this will allow us to inject 530,000 barrels of water per day into the DWG reservoir through 13 subsea wells drilled from three subsea drilling centres which are located between 3.2 kilometers and 5.2 kilometers from the DWG platformâ€ said the companyâ€™s 2Q Business Update.
According to the report, development of these subsea facilities marks the first significant subsea development in the Caspian Sea and paves the way for future Caspian subsea developments in ACG, Shah Deniz and elsewhere.
The new gas dew point control unit (DPCU2) for ACG associated gas has been completed and is being commissioned now with start-up of the plant expected in September.
Besides, the future major projects plans include:
â€¢ Commission phases 4 and 5 of the produced water facilities - 3Q 2009
â€¢ commission DWG East manifold - 4Q 2009
â€¢ install additional DWG water injection facilities on the North and South manifolds - 4Q 2009 and 1Q-2Q 2010
â€¢ move the Chirag Oil Project into execute - 1Q 2010
Through its construction contractors BP-Azerbaijan currently employs over 200 people and 88% per cent of these are Azerbaijani nationals.