BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 3. The Shah Deniz field produced about 18 billion standard cubic meters (bscm) of gas and more than 3 million tons (more than 27 million barrels) of condensate in total from the Shah Deniz Alpha and Shah Deniz Bravo platforms, as compared to 16 billion standard cubic meters (bcm) of gas and around 3 million tons (24 million barrels) of condensate in H1 2021, Trend reports via BP.
The field’s gas production volume increased by 12.5 percent year-on-year, condensate output grew by 12.5 percent as well.
“The existing Shah Deniz facilities’ production capacity is currently about 73 million standard cubic meters of gas per day or more than 26.5 bcma,” the report said.
Meanwhile, a planned maintenance program (turnaround - TAR) was successfully implemented on the Shah Deniz Alpha platform and Shah Deniz 1 facilities inside the Sangachal terminal in the third quarter of 2022.
During the reporting period, the Shah Deniz field continued to provide deliveries of gas to markets in Azerbaijan (to Azerkontrakt), Georgia (to GOGC), Türkiye (to BOTAS), to the BTC Company in multiple locations and to buyers in Europe.
Shah Deniz participating interests are: BP (operator – 29.99 percent), LUKOIL (19.99 percent), TPAO (19 percent), SOCAR (14.35 percent), NICO (10 percent ) and SGC (6.67 percent).
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