BAKU, Azerbaijan, Aug.3. During the first half of the year, Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) delivered an average of around 6 million cubic metres per day of ACG associated gas to the state of Azerbaijan (1.1 billion cubic metres in total), primarily at the Sangachal terminal but also to SOCAR’s Oil Rocks facility, Trend reports via bp.
The remainder of the associated gas produced was re-injected for reservoir pressure maintenance.
This is while during the first half of 2022, ACG delivered an average of around 9 million cubic metres per day of associated gas to the state of Azerbaijan. As such, the volume of associated gas deliveries dropped by 33.3 percent year-on-year.
During the first half of 2023, ACG continued to safely and reliably deliver stable production. Total ACG production for the first half of 2023 was on average about 375,000 barrels per day (b/d) (about 68 million barrels or 9 million tonnes in total) from the Chirag (23,000 b/d), Central Azeri (98,000 b/d), West Azeri (91,000 b/d), East Azeri (61,000 b/d), Deepwater Gunashli (67,000 b/d) and West Chirag (35,000 b/d) platforms.
P Exploration (Caspian Sea) Limited is the operator on behalf of the Contractor Parties to the ACG Production Sharing Agreement.
ACG participating interests are: bp (30.37%), SOCAR (25.0%), MOL (9.57%), INPEX (9.31%), Equinor (7.27%), ExxonMobil (6.79%), TPAO (5.73%), ITOCHU (3.65%), ONGCVidesh (2.31%).
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