Baku. Agshin Rafigoglu – APA-Economics. During the first nine months of 2013, BP-Azerbaijan delivered around 5.9 million cubic metres (210 million standard cubic feet) per day of ACG associated gas to SOCAR (1.62 billion cubic metres or 57.3 billion cubic feet in total).
By the end of September 2013, ACG associated gas flaring was 2.9%. This represents 41% reduction from 2012.
As result of further improvement measures ACG associated gas utilization rate has reached about 98% which is in line with the best European standards. BP as operator of ACG will continue its efforts to minimize associated gas flaring while maintaining safe operations.
ACG participating interests are: BP (operator – 35.8%), SOCAR (11.6%), Chevron (11.3%), INPEX (11%), Statoil (8.6%), ExxonMobil (8%), TPAO (6.8%), ITOCHU (4.3%), ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) (2.7%).