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Khoshbaht Yusifzade: Central Azeri resumes normal work

04 November 2008 13:38 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Kamala Guliyev - APA-Economics. Central Azeri and West Azeri at Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) group of fields in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea have resumed normal schedule of works, said Khoshbaht Yusifzade, Vice-President of State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR).
On September 17, two of its five offshore platforms on the ACG fields were shut down following a gas leak.
He added that there are about 100 workers on Central Azeri.
â€œConnection between West Azeri and East Azeri has been repaired. These two platforms have normal work flow now and produce 80 000 tons of oil a day. Also, water injection wells have been restarted on Central Azeri. After that, production wells will also come back online. We want to solve the problems in a safe way,â€ he added.
He didnâ€™t say when Central Azeri will restore operation.
â€œIt is phased work. Gas analysis is taken and geophysicists are working there. The point is to find gas leak came from a well or a crack. There is no loss of oil. There must be accurate work because of it is a large platform,â€ he added.
The Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli oilfields are the main source of oil for the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline which takes crude oil from Azerbaijan to the Turkish Port of Ceyhan for world markets.
Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli participating interests are: BP (operator â€“ 34.1%), Chevron (10.2%), SOCAR (10%), INPEX (10%), StatoilHydro (8.6%), ExxonMobil (8%), TPAO (6.8%), Devon (5.6%), ITOCHU (3.9%), Hess (2.7%).