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Over 61% of work on Absheron First Gas project completed

Oil&Gas Materials 18 January 2021 10:09 (UTC +04:00)
Over 61% of work on Absheron First Gas project completed

BAKU, Azerbaijan, Jan.18

By Leman Zeynalova – Trend:

Alongside with platform installation, underwater pipeline communications are being laid as part of the Absheron field, Ibrahim Ahmadov, deputy head of the public relations and events department at Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR, told Trend.

“Underwater pipelines built with pipe-in-pipe technology will connect the platform with Oil Rocks, wherefrom the product will be delivered to the onshore terminal via existing lines. More than 61 percent of the work was completed under the Absheron First Gas project by the end of 2020. The support block of the platform has been installed, and the installation of piles is underway. The first gas production is expected in 2022,” he said.

Absheron project participants include SOCAR - 50 percent and France’s Total - 50 percent.

A contract on the Absheron field was signed Feb. 27, 2009 between SOCAR and Total.

The discovery of the field was announced in September 2011. A decision was made to drill an offshoot of the first exploration well to specify the data. The work was completed in 2012.

The results of the first exploration well indicate the existence of commercially attractive gas and condensate reserves. According to Total geologists, the reserves of Absheron amount to 326 billion cubic meters of gas and 108 million tons of condensate.

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