BAKU, Azerbaijan, Nov.5
By Leman Zeynalova – Trend:
In the three quarters of 2019, the Sangachal terminal exported more than 198 million barrels of oil, Trend reports with reference to BP.
This included over 178 million barrels through Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) and over 20 million barrels through the Western Route Export Pipeline (WREP), BP said in its report on activities in the third quarter of 2019.
During the three quarters of 2018, the Sangachal terminal exported more than 211 million barrels of oil. This included over 189 million barrels through Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC), about 21 million barrels through the Western Route Export Pipeline (WREP), and about 1.2 million barrels via a separate condensate export line.
“During the first three quarters of 2019, oil and gas from ACG and Shah Deniz continued to flow via subsea pipelines to the Sangachal terminal. The daily capacity of the terminal’s processing systems is currently 1.2 million barrels of crude oil and about 80 million standard cubic metres of Shah Deniz gas, while overall processing and export capacity for gas, including ACG associated gas is around 100 million standard cubic metres per day,” said BP.
On average, about 44 million standard cubic metres (about 1,548 million standard cubic feet) of Shah Deniz gas was exported from the terminal daily during the three quarters of 2019, according to the report.
Gas is exported via the South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP), the South Caucasus Pipeline expansion system and via SOCAR gas pipelines connecting the terminal’s gas processing facilities with Azerigas’s national grid system.
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