Azerbaijan, Baku, Dec. 23 / Trend , S.Aliyev /"The operation of the platform on the Central Azeri field, which was suspended due to gas emission, will completely resumed in January," Rovng Abdullayev, the President of SOCAR (State Oil Company of Azerbaijan), said on Dec. 23.
Now three wells operate in the Central Azeri field. The volume of production from the field is changeable. Two other wells are planned to put into operation to the end of the week, Abdullayev said.
BP, operator of development of the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) fields, is launching production wells in the central part of the field.
Oil production in the ACG block of fields now totals about 650,000 bpd against 900,000 bpd before suspension of platforms on the field.
On Sep. 17, BP stopped oil production from the Central Azeri field and evacuated the staff from the platform as gas emission was revealed nearby in the sea. Production on the western part of the deposit from the West Azeri platform was stopped for precaution, but later restored..
Azeri Light oil is produced from the ACG and is exported through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline.
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