Azerbaijan, Baku, May 22 / Trend , E. Ismayilova/
Azerbaijan will produce nearly 46-47 million tons of oil in 2009 compared to 44.5 million in 2008, Azerbaijani Industry and Energy Minister Natig Aliyev said at a press conference.
About 52 million tons of oil was planned to be produced last year. But his volume of oil was not produced due to suspension of production on the Central Azeri platform (operated by consortium of foreign companies as a part of the Azeri-Chiraq-Gunashli fields), the minister said.
"Azerbaijan has a great potential to increase production in several year. The republic can produce 65 million tons of oil per year. We will achieve such results. Here already existing fields are main point. Besides current fields, we have many perspective fields," Aliyev said.
The Central Azeri platform stopped work on Sept. 17 2008 due to gas spark on the sea near the platform. The production on the Azeri-Chiraq-Gunashli fields has been fully resumed and has reached 900,000 barrels per day, the same volume produced before the Sept. 2008.
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