Baku, Azerbaijan, Apr.13
By Maksim Tsurkov - Trend:
The revenues of Azerbaijani State Oil Fund from the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli project stood at $112.215 billion from early 2001 to Apr.1, 2015, SOFAZ told Trend Apr.13.
SOFAZ said its revenues from the implementation of the project for development of ACG block of oil and gas fields in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea in Jan.-March 2015, totaled $2.065 billion, including $679 million in March.
The contract for development of ACG field was signed in 1994. The proven oil reserve of the block nears 1 billion metric tons.
The shareholders of the project are: BP (operator in the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli) - 35.78 percent, Chevron - 11.27 percent, Inpex - 10.96 percent, AzACG - 11.65 percent, Statoil - 8.56 percent, Exxon - 8 percent, TPAO - 6.75 percent, Itocu - 4.3 percent and ONGC - 2.72 percent.
The State Oil Fund was created in 1999 and its assets were equal to $271 million that time. The assets of SOFAZ increased by 3.42 percent and exceeded $37.104 billion as of Jan.1, 2015, compared to about $35.878 billion in early 2014.
Under SOFAZ's regulations, its funds may be used for the construction and reconstruction of strategically important infrastructure facilities, as well as solving important national problems.
The main goals of the State Oil Fund include: accumulation of resources and the placement of the fund's assets abroad in order to minimize the negative affect on the economy, the prevention of "Dutch disease" to some extent, promotion of resource accumulation for future generations and support of current social and economic processes in Azerbaijan.
Edited by SI
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