Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend corr. S.Aliyev / The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) has reported that upper construction of the compressor platform, technological processing, technological provision and pumping of water will be sent to the deep-water part of Gunashli field. It will be the last construction work for the platform, which is implemented within the project of full scale development of Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli fields. Drilling-in of wells will begin in Gunashli field in September. Production will begin in 2008. All construction work will be completed by the end of 2007.
Chirag-Azeri and Gunashli fields have been developed within the framework of the project of Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli. BP is the operator of the project.