BAKU, Azerbaijan, Dec. 27
By Leman Zeynalova – Trend:
The average oil production at Azerbaijan’s Gum Deniz field was 67 tons per day in September 2021, as compared to 61 tons per day in August, Trend reports with reference to the US Greenfields Petroleum Company, which operates the project through its subsidiary BEOC.
The table below shows oil production rate differences between September and August 2021:
|
Date / Well# |
006 |
009 |
012 |
020 |
038 |
372 |
412 |
413 |
414 |
417 |
418 |
430 |
438 |
444 |
445 |
447 |
456 |
461 |
465 |
466 |
467 |
468 |
470 |
471 |
475 |
477 |
478 |
479 |
504 |
601 |
715 |
716 |
774 |
Total, m3 |
|
August 2021 |
1.0 |
2.2 |
0.7 |
0.0 |
3.5 |
3.7 |
0.2 |
2.6 |
9.2 |
0.0 |
3.8 |
2.5 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.7 |
2.9 |
1.9 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.7 |
0.7 |
2.0 |
2.3 |
3.1 |
6.0 |
3. 5 |
3.6 |
9.4 |
1.6 |
0.0 |
6.1 |
0.8 |
0.6 |
75.2 |
|
September 2021 |
1.1 |
2.2 |
0.7 |
0.0 |
3.0 |
10.5 |
0.8 |
0.0 |
3.9 |
0.0 |
1.7 |
3.88 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
2.7 |
1.9 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.9 |
1.1 |
2.0 |
2.3 |
3.4 |
6.0 |
4.0 |
4.6 |
8.5 |
1.7 |
0.0 |
7.2 |
0.3 |
0.6 |
75.0 |
|
Difference |
-0.2 |
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The Gum Deniz Oil Field is located south of the Absheron peninsula, 21 km south of Baku, between Gum Island and the Bahar Gas Field. The Gum Deniz Oil Field extends from onshore Gum Island, which is 2.5 km from the mainland to the south in the Caspian Sea. The Gum Deniz Oil Field is found along the Fatmai–Gum Adasi anticlinal trend which includes the Bahar and Shakh Deniz structures. Oil in the Gum Deniz Oil Field is trapped in a north-south trending structure that is approximately 16 kilometres in length and 3 kilometres in width. The Gum Deniz Oil Field is structurally up-dip from the Bahar Gas Field. The fields are separated by a structural saddle.
The Gum Deniz Oil Field begins on a sand island approximately 2.5 kilometres offshore and extends to the south into the Caspian Sea, where it was developed from approximately 109 drilling and production platforms, most of which were connected to a steel causeway network of approximately 16.8 kilometres long. Parts of the causeway and many of the platforms are no longer in operation nor accessible. The causeway allows personnel and small packages of production, drilling and workover equipment to be moved via small motorised vehicles to the production platforms, significantly reducing the need for frequent marine support. Oil, water and gas are delivered via pipelines along the causeway to a main collector line which carries all produced fluid to onshore treatment facilities.
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