Presently, gas from Azerbaijan gas condensate Shahdaniz field is sent to the Azerbaijan gas distributing system and the South Caucasian Export Gas Pipeline (SCP), a source in BP Azerbaijan told Trend. BP is the technical operator of SCP Project and the operator of Shahdaniz.
5.6 mln. cubic meters of gas and 2,500 tons of gas condensate are produced from the first development well per day. The gas production was launched on December 15. The depth of the first development well is 6,500 meters. It was drilled from a hundredmeter sea depth.
The contract on the development of Shahdaniz field was signed in 1996 in Baku. The parties to the project are: BP (operator - 25,5%), Statoil - 25,5%, SOCAR, LUKoil, NICO and TOTAL- both 10%, and TPAO - 9%.
The gas reserves of Shahdaniz is estimated at 1 bln. cubic meters of gas and over 100 mln. tons of gas condensate.