(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 28. Jacket of
the Azeri Central East (ACE) platform has been installed in the
Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping Company (ASCO) CJSC told
trend .
The jacket, built at Baku Deep Water Jackets Factory
named after Heydar Aliyev, was loaded on STB-1 barge and dispatched
to the sea on March 16, 2023.
"The weight of the jacket is 16,000 tons, and the
height is 153 meters. This facility includes three vertical pipes -
for water injection, oil export, and gas export," ASCO noted.
The ACE project (worth $6 billion), includes a new
offshore platform and other facilities designed to produce up to
100,000 barrels of oil per day. The ACE platform will maintain oil
production at the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) block of fields above
400,000 barrels per day until the end of the 2020s.
Within the project, a new 48-slot production,
drilling, and quarters platform will be built mid-way between the
existing Central Azeri and East Azeri platforms in a water depth of
approximately 140 meters.
The project will also include new infield pipelines to
transfer oil and gas from the ACE platform to the existing ACG
Phase 2 oil and gas export pipelines for transportation to the
onshore Sangachal terminal. The jacket of the Azeri Central East
(ACE) platform will be installed in a water depth of 137
meters.
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