BAKU, Azerbaijan, Feb.4
By Leman Zeynalova – Trend:
The start-up of the deep-water East South Flank (at 540m water depth) as part of the Shah Deniz 2 project is planned for the second quarter of 2021, following completion of offshore construction and commissioning, Trend reports citing BP.
The start-up of the two remaining deep-water flanks (West South and East North) is planned for future years and will support plateau rates of gas production.
In 2020, the Shah Deniz 2 project achieved major milestones in support of the gas production start-up from the East South Flank. The pipelay barge Israfil Huseynov safely completed the mechanical installation of two deep-water flowlines with the length of 18.3 km each. Flowline termination assemblies and other adjacent subsea infrastructure were successfully installed using the subsea construction vessel Khankendi.
Shah Deniz participating interests are: bp (operator – 28.8%), TPAO (19.0%), AzSD (10.0%), SGC Upstream (6.7%), PETRONAS (15.5%), LUKOIL (10.0%) and NICO (10.0%).
In 2020, Shah Deniz spent more than $1 billion in operating expenditure and $942 million in capital expenditure, the majority of which was associated with the Shah Deniz 2 project.
In 2020, the field produced around 18.1 billion standard cubic metres (bcm) of gas and 3.6 million tonnes (29 million barrels) of condensate in total from the Shah Deniz Alpha and Shah Deniz Bravo platforms.
The existing Shah Deniz facilities’ production capacity is currently over 56 million standard cubic metres of gas per day or more than 20 bcma.
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