BAKU, Azerbaijan, Feb.6
By Leman Zeynalova – Trend:
In 2019, the Sangachal terminal exported about 263 million barrels of oil, Trend reports citing BP Azerbaijan.
“This included about 235 million barrels through Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) and about 28 million barrels through the Western Route Export Pipeline (WREP),” BP said in its report on 2019 year results.
This is while in 2018, Sangachal terminal exported about 284 million barrels of oil.
On average, more than 45 million standard cubic metres (about 1,600 million standard cubic feet) of Shah Deniz gas was exported from the terminal daily in 2019, according to the report.
“In 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.
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, reads the report.
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