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BP delivers associated gas to Azerbaijan 44% more than considered

01 March 2012 13:23 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Nijat Mustafayev â€“ APA-Economics. During 2011, BP delivered about 3.3 billion cubic metres (116,873 billion standard cubic feet) of associated gas to SOCAR.

During the year, BP as operator of the ACG field continued to supply associated gas via the 28â€ gas subsea pipeline from three platforms (CA, WA and EA) to the Sangachal terminal and from there into Azerigasâ€™ national grid system for domestic use. Some of the associated gas produced from the Chirag platform was sent to the SOCAR compression station at the Oil Rocks via the existing 16â€ subsea gas pipeline. The rest of the associated gas from the ACG platforms was sent via in-field subsea gas pipelines to the compression and water injection platform (C&WP) on CA for re-injection to maintain pressure in the reservoir. Gas injection activities currently continue from five wells on CA.

In 2011, we delivered around 9.1 million cubic metres (about 320.2 million standard cubic feet) per day of ACG associated gas to SOCAR. In total, we delivered about 3.3 billion cubic metres (116,873 billion standard cubic feet) of associated gas to SOCAR in 2011 which exceeded (by about 43%) our plan of 2.3 billion cubic metres (over 80 billion standard cubic feet) of associated gas for the full year. In 2012 we expect is to deliver about 3 billion cubic metres (about 106 billion standard cubic feet ) of associated gas to SOCAR.

Note that, ACG participating interests are: BP (operator â€“ 35.8%), Chevron (11.3%), SOCAR (11.6%), INPEX (11%), Statoil (8.6%), ExxonMobil (8%), TPAO (6.8%), ITOCHU (4.3%), Hess (2.7%).