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229 mln barrels of oil exported through Sangachal terminal during 9 months

23 November 2011 14:56 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Nijat Mustafayev â€“ APA-Economics. During the first nine months of 2011 the Sangachal Terminal exported about 228.6 million barrels of oil (including 201 million barrels through Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC), 21.7 million barrels through the western route export pipeline (WREP) and 4.7 million barrels through rail). By the end of October these numbers were 252.4 million barrels of oil (including 222 million barrels through BTC, 24 million barrels through the WREP and 5 million barrels through rail).

On average about 16.6 million standard cubic meters (about 586 million standard cubic feet) of Shah Deniz gas was exported from the terminal daily during the first three quarters of the year. By the end of October, 2011 these numbers were about 17 million standard cubic meters (about 600 million standard cubic feet) per day.

Note that, Oil and gas from ACG and Shah Deniz continue to flow via subsea pipelines to the Sangachal terminal. The capacity of the terminalâ€™s overall processing systems is currently 1.2 million barrels of oil and 25.5 million cubic metres of Shah Deniz gas per day (about 39.5 million cubic metres in total) per day.