BAKU, Azerbaijan, Aug.3. In the second quarter of 2023, the Shah Deniz 2 project progressed on schedule towards the production start-up from the East North flank in the fourth quarter of the year, Trend reports via bp.
The installation and testing activities for this start-up project continued both subsea and on the topsides modules onboard the Shah Deniz Bravo platform. The project successfully completed flooding, cleaning, gauging and hydrotesting activities for the East North production flowlines, installed all flexible monobores at the East North flank and completed tie-ins of remaining closing spools at the Shah Deniz Bravo platform location.
The existing Shah Deniz facilities’ production capacity is currently about 72.6 million standard cubic metres of gas per day or approximately 26.5 billion standard cubic metres per year.
During the first six months, the Shah Deniz field continued to provide gas to markets in Azerbaijan (to Azerkontrakt), Georgia (to GOGC), Türkiye (to BOTAS), BTC in multiple locations and to buyers in Europe.
In the first half of 2023, bp and its co-venturers spent around $1,208 million in operating expenditure and around $408 million in capital expenditure on Shah Deniz activities, the majority of which was associated with the Shah Deniz 2 project.
Shah Deniz participating interests are: bp (operator – 29.99%), SGC (21.02%), LUKOIL (19.99%), TPAO (19.00%) and NICO (10.00%).
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