Azerbaijan, Baku / corr Trend S.Aliyev / ВР Azerbaijan restored its gas production from the Shah Deniz field, which was stopped for several days for safety reasons on TPG-500 platform, the government announced. restored its gas production from the Shah Deniz field, which was stopped for several days for safety reasons on TPG-500 platform, the government announced.
At present the well is working as normal, the same source added. The second well drilled within the pre-drilling program is also active and its daily withdrawal is approximately 5.1mln cu m of gas and 12,000 barrels of condensate.
A total of 8.6bln cu m of gas a year will be produced in the plateau stage under Stage 1 of the Shah Deniz project. In 2007 production from Shah Deniz will comprise 2.8bln cu m of gas.