(MENAFN- AzerNews) By Ayya Lmahamad
The total production of Azerbaijan's Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG)
block of fields has amounted to 114 million barrels during the
three quarters of 2022, bp Azerbaijan told Azernews.
From January to September, the total production from the block
of fields amounted to 418,000 barrels per day. Of this, the Chirag
field accounted for 25,000 b/d, Central Azeri for 105,000 b/d, West
Azeri for 108,000 b/d, East Azeri for 63,000 b/d, Deepwater
Gunashli for 77,000 b/d and West Chirag for 40,000 b/d.
At the end of the nine months, 137 wells were producing oil,
while 33 wells were used for water and eight for gas injection. In
addition, ACG completed 11 oil production wells and two water
injector wells.
During the reporting period, ACG delivered 2.2 billion cubic
meters, or an average of 8 million cubic meters per day of
ACG-associated gas to the state of Azerbaijan, primarily at the
Sangachal Terminal, and to SOCAR's Oil Rocks facility. The
remaining associated gas produced was re-injected for reservoir
pressure maintenance.
The company spent about $337 million in operating expenditures
and $1.2 billion in capital expenditure on ACG activities.
During the third quarter, the Azeri Central East (ACE) platform
topsides and drilling facilities fabrication activities continued
at the fabrication yard in Bibi-Heybat. The integration of the
drilling facilities into the topsides progressed with both the
modular drilling support module (MDSM) and the drilling equipment
set (DES) fully handed over to commissioning and the drilling rig
skidding commissioning commenced.
This followed the safe execution of the 2,350 tonnes MDSM and
the 2,400 tonnes DES jack up to the final height of around 27
meters and then the successful skid onto the topsides deck. This
was a carefully planned complex“Jack and Skid” operation and a
first for bp globally.
At the Sangachal terminal, onshore site construction and
standalone commissioning activities for the ACE operations control
from the shore came to end, and integration works with ACE topsides
commenced. The project also commenced offshore execution for the
ACE oil pipeline tie-in scope on the Central Azeri platform.
By the end of the third quarter of 2022, the ACE project had
almost reached the 80 percent progress milestone. All engineering,
procurement, and onshore fabrication works remain on track to be
completed in 2023.
BP opened its first office in Baku in June 1992 and has since
then contributed to Azerbaijan's oil and gas sector through
operating projects such as Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG), Shah Deniz,
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC), and South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP).
The contract for the development of the ACG oil fields was
signed on September 20, 1994, and took force in December. The
contract for the development of the ACG block was extended to 2050
in September 2017.
The shareholders in the ACG project are BP (operator, 30.37
percent), SOCAR (25 percent), MOL (9.57 percent), INPEX (9.31
percent), Equinor (7.27 percent), ExxonMobil (6.79 percent), TPAO
(5.73 percent), ITOCHU (3.65 percent), ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL)
(2.31 percent).
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