Baku, Azerbaijan, June 1
By Leman Zeynalova – Trend:
Technical changes have been made in the program for development of Azerbaijan’s Absheron gas field, a source in the country’s oil and gas market told Trend.
Earlier, Norwegian oilfield services company Hydrawell said it has abandoned the use of Perforation, Wash and Cement (PWC) hydraulic system in the Absheron field due to operational changes.
"Our work on the application of the system for perforation, washing and cementing (PWC) has been canceled due to operational changes that are not related to the services of HydraWell," Vice President for business development of the company Arne Larsen told Trend.
“This change mentioned by Hydrawell is just a minor technical change in our program for plug and abandon of our exploration well. Nothing strategic at all,” said the source.
HydraWell signed a contract for the provision of services for the plug and abandonment at major Absheron field with the Total E&P Absheron company.
This work was successfully completed in early May.
In 2016 Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR and Total signed a framework agreement on the main contractual and commercial principles regulating the program of the first phase development of the Absheron field.
The first phase of the field’s development envisages drilling of one well at a sea depth of 470 meters. The production will stand at 1.5 billion cubic meters of gas per year and these volumes will be used in Azerbaijan’s domestic market. It is planned to produce up to 4 billion cubic meters of gas as the second stage.
Absheron’s reserves are estimated at 326 billion cubic meters of gas and 108 million tons of condensate, according to the estimations of Total specialists.
The Absheron project will be operated by JOCAP (Joint Operating Company Absheron Petroleum) (50 percent SOCAR, 50 percent Total).
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