Azerbaijan, Baku, May 6 / Trend , E.Ismayilov/
Annual emissions of the associated gas which causes greenhouse effect in the Bibi Heybat and Siyazanneft onshore fields total roughly three million cubic meters, head of the SOCAR Ecology Department Azar Aliyev said. The Bibi Heybat and Siyazanneft oil and gas production units (OGPU) belong to the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR).
"Emissions in the Bibi Heybat OGPU are about 300,000 cubic meters per year and 2.7 million cubic meters - in Siyazanneft," Aliyev said.
Aliyev said this is not a large amount, but the SOCAR will work to catch the associated gas.
The Guneshli and Neft Dashlari offshore fields produce the largest amounts of emissions of low pressure-associated gas. Aliyev said the volume emissions in the Guneshli field fluctuates between 150 million and 250 million cubic meters a year and this figure is about 150 million cubic meters in the Neft Dashlari field.
Thus, under the "Clean Development Mechanism" Kyoto protocol, a compressor station is being built to press low-pressure gas. Capacity of the station is four million cubic meters of gas per day. It is planned to finish delivering gas to shore (to provide consumers), as well as register the project as part of the UN Convention on Climate Change by late 2009, Aliyev said.
Aliyev said SOCAR is also conducting work to construct small compressor stations to press low-pressure gas in the Neft Dashlari field.
This process is carried out via local compressor stations with low capacity on platform in the Neft Dashlari field. These stations have been installed on many platforms and gas is passed to the shore. There are only few platforms on which compressor station is being built, Aliyev said.
There are 57 oil and gas fields, including 18 offshore and the remained - onshore in Azerbaijan. The SOCAR personnel numbers over 62,000 people at the moment.
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