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Daily oil production in ACG makes 716 300 barrel

07 May 2010 11:02 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Nijat Mustafayev â€“ APA-Economics. During the first quarter we produced an average 797.300 barrels per day (b/d) (more than 72 million barrels or 9.7 million tonnes) from the Chirag, Central Azeri, West Azeri, East Azeri and Deep Water Gunashli platforms.

Our full year plan remains to be an average of 854,000 b/d (about 42.1 million tonnes pa) production from the five ACG platforms. Of this, about 90,900 b/d is expected from Chirag, 184,200 b/d from Central Azeri, 285,700 b/d from West Azeri, 158,100 b/d from East Azeri and 135,100 b/d from Deep Water Gunashli.

Chirag has 19 wells in operation (13 oil producers and 6 water injectors) and during the first quarter of 2010 it produced on average about 106,700 b/d.

Central Azeri (CA) has 20 wells (13 oil producers, 2 water injectors and 5 gas injectors) and during the first quarter it produced on average about 190.400 b/d.

West Azeri (WA) has 21 wells (15 of which are oil producers and 6 water injectors) and during the first quarter it produced on average around 253.700 b/d.

East Azeri (EA) has 14 wells (10 of which are producers and 4 water injectors) and during the first quarter it produced on average around 127.900 b/d.

Deep Water Gunashli (DWG) has 21 wells (11 producers and 10 water injectors) and during the first quarter it produced on average about 118.600 b/d of oil.

ACG participating interests are: BP (operator â€“ 34.1%), Chevron (10.2%), SOCAR (10%), INPEX (10%), Statoil (8.6%), ExxonMobil (8%), TPAO (6.8%), Devon (5.6%), ITOCHU (3.9%), Hess (2.7%).