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Sangachal terminal exported 25.5 million standard cubic metres of Shah Deniz gas during first quarter

15 May 2014 14:34 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Agshin Rafigoglu – APA-Economics. Oil and gas from ACG and Shah Deniz continued to flow via subsea pipelines to the Sangachal terminal.

BP-Azerbaijan told APA-Economics that the daily capacity of the terminal’s processing systems is currently 1.2 million barrels of oil and around 970 million standard cubic feet or 27.4 million standard cubic metres of Shah Deniz gas, while overall processing and export capacity for gas, including ACG associated gas is about 41.5 million standard cubic metres per day

Gas is exported via the South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP) and via a SOCAR gas pipeline connecting the terminal’s gas processing facilities and Azerigas’s national grid system.

During the first quarter of 2014, the Sangachal terminal exported about 75 million barrels of oil. This included 65.2 million barrels through Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC), 8.02 million barrels through the Western Route Export Pipeline (WREP), 1.34 million barrels by rail and 0.44 million barrels via a condensate export line.

On average, 25.5 million standard cubic metres (over 900 million standard cubic feet) of Shah Deniz gas was exported from the terminal daily during the first quarter of 2014.