BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 10. Hungarian MOL Group’s capital expenditure (capex) on development of Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) block of oil fields in the Azerbaijani section of the Caspian Sea stood at $33.3 million in the third quarter of 2023, as compared to $38.7 million in the same period in 2022, Trend reports with reference to the company.
As such, the company’s capex on ACG development dropped by almost 14 percent year-on-year.
Other expenditures of the company on the block equaled to $0.9 million in 3Q2023, as compared to $0.8 million in 3Q2022.
The company also saw a quarter-on-quarter decrease by 3.2 percent in capex on ACG, as it spent around $34.4 million on the field’s development in the second quarter of 2023.
In the first nine months of 2023, MOL Group’s capital expenditure on ACG’s development stood at $100.7 million, as compared to $113.2 million in the same period in 2022, showing more than 11 percent decrease.
In the first three quarters of 2023, bp and its co-venturers spent about $365 million in operating expenditure and $1,109 million in capital expenditure on Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli activities.
As such, allocations on ACG operating expenditure in the reporting period grew by 8.3 percent year-on-year ($337 million in 3Q2022), while capital expenditure decreased by almost 8 percent year-on-year ($1,204 million in 3Q2022).
BP 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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