Baku. Agshin Rafigoglu - APA-Economics. During the first half of the year, the field continued delivering gas to the markets of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. The gas from Shah Deniz Stage 1 continues to be sold to Azerbaijan, GOGC (Georgia), BOTAS and the BTC Company.
In the first half, the field produced about 4.8 billion cubic metres (about 169 billion cubic feet) of gas and 1.26 million tonnes (about 10 million barrels) of condensate or about 27 million cubic metres of gas per day (955 million standard cubic feet per day) and 54,800 b/d of condensate.
Since the start of Shah Deniz production in late 2006 till the end of the first half of 2013, about 42.7 billion standard cubic metres (1,500 billion standard cubic feet) of Shah Deniz gas, and about 90 million barrels (11.3 million tonnes) of Shah Deniz condensate was exported to the markets.
Shah Deniz Stage 1 production is currently at plateau with production facilities running at maximum capacity of 966 million standard cubic feet per day and approximately 55,000 b/d of condensate when markets are available.
Note that, Shah Deniz participating interests are: BP (operator – 25.5%), Statoil (25.5%), SOCAR (10%), LUKOIL (10%), ICO (10%), Total (10%), and TPAO (9%).