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South Caucasus Pipeline’s daily average export throughput up

Oil&Gas Materials 10 February 2022 15:26 (UTC +04:00)
South Caucasus Pipeline’s daily average export throughput up

BAKU, Azerbaijan, Feb.10

By Leman Zeynalova – Trend:

During 2021, the daily average export throughput of the South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP) was 48.5 million cubic metres of gas per day, as compared to 33.8 million cubic metres in 2020, Trend reports with reference to bp.

As such, South Caucasus Pipeline’s daily average export throughput rose by 43,49 percent year-on-year.

The SCP Co. shareholders are: bp (28.83%), TPAO (19.0%), PETRONAS (15.5%), AzSCP (10.0%), NICO (10.0%), LUKOIL (10.0%) and SGC Midstream (6.67%).

The SCP has been operational since late 2006, transporting Shah Deniz gas to Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. The expanded section of the pipeline commenced commercial deliveries to Turkey in June 2018 and to Europe in December 2020.

On 1 August 2021, the transition of the technical operatorship of the South Caucasus Pipeline Company (SCPC) from BP Exploration (Shah Deniz) Limited to SOCAR Midstream Operations LLC was finalized. The transition process which started in March 2020 was successfully completed in July 2021. Despite the challenges caused by COVID-19, bp and SOCAR worked in close collaboration to effectively implement all the aspects of the process.

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