Azerbaijan, Baku, Dec. 10 /Trend, E.Ismayilov/
SOCAR (State Oil Company of Azerbaijan) completed preparation of a three-dimensional model of Kalmaz underground gas storage facility, a source in SOCAR said on Friday. The work was done within increasing active gas storage capacity.
Three-dimensional geophysical studies were carried to construct the model and the data were processed and interpreted. The model has been prepared on the basis of these results.
"The work on this project has fully completed," said the source.
Azerbaijan has two underground gas storage facilities - Kalmaz and Garadagh.
Following the completion of the gas pumping season, the volume of gas reserves in underground facilities in Azerbaijan amounted to 3.05 billion cubic meters. Of the total amount of gas available in storage facilities, more than 1.13 billion cubic meters remained from last year. Last year, SOCAR pumped about 2 billion cubic meters of gas into the country's underground gas storage facilities compared to 1.4 billion cubic meters in 2008.