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Creation of the necessary infrastructure at Azerbaijan's Absheron gas field in the Caspian Sea will begin in mid-2018, according to a presentation by Total, an operator of the field's development.
The presentation was made in Baku Feb. 20 at public hearings on the Environmental Impact Report of the drilling project.
The work envisages designing and laying an export pipeline as well as building a platform and connecting it with the infrastructure of the Oil Rocks deposit, according to the presentation.
The work on both facilities will cover a period from mid-2018 until the end of 2019.
Total E & P Azerbaijan will act as an executor regarding the export pipeline, while the Azneft Production Union will act as an executor of the platform construction and its joining with the infrastructure of the Oil Rocks deposit.
The Israfil Huseynov pipe laying vessel or the "Azerbaijan" crane vessel, modernized as part of the Shah Deniz-2 project, will carry out the work on laying the export pipeline.
The processed and filtered sea water will be pumped into the reservoirs of the Oil Rocks deposit, and the pipeline will be cleaned every five years, according to the presentation.
The platform will be assembled at a production site in Azerbaijan and then installed in the sea.
Earlier, SOCAR and Total signed a framework agreement on the main contractual and commercial principles regulating the program of the first phase development of the Absheron field.
The first phase of the field's development envisages drilling of one well at a sea depth of 450 meters. The production will stand at 1.5 billion cubic meters of gas per year and these volumes will be used in Azerbaijan's domestic market.
Absheron's reserves are estimated at 326 billion cubic meters of gas and 108 million tons of condensate, according to the estimations of Total specialists.
The Absheron project will be operated by JOCAP (Joint Operating Company Absheron Petroleum) (50 percent SOCAR, 50 percent Total).
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