Azerbaijan, Baku, 17 January / Trend corr S. Aliyev / At present, Turkey daily receives over 13.5mln cu m of gas from the Azerbaijani Shah Deniz gas and condensate field, the Government reported on 16 January.
According to the Government, over 7mln cu m of gas from the Shah Deniz is daily passed to Azerbaijan. Some 1mln cu m of gas is daily transported to Georgia and a small assignment of gas (less than 1mln cu m) is carried to the pumping stations of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline.
At present, over 22mln cu m of gas is produced per day at the Shah Deniz, the technical operator of which is ВР. Four wells are operating in the field. "Other wells will be put into operation this year, which will result in the increase in production this year," a source at the Government said.
During the stable production within the framework of the Stage-1, the production in the field will make up 8.6bln cu m of gas a year and over 30,000 barrels of condensate per day.