During the planned shutdown of the production platform at the Shah Deniz field, scheduled for mid-August, preventive work and technical maintenance will be carried out on the gas pipeline in Turkiye as well, Report informs referring to Daily Sabah.
Preventive work and technical maintenance will be carried out on the Shah Deniz Alpha platform, South Caucasus Gas Pipeline (Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum) on August 14-28.
For this reason, the supply of Azerbaijani gas through the South Caucasus pipeline to Turkiye will be temporarily suspended.
“Due to planned maintenance works between August 14-28 in Shah Deniz-Turkiye pipeline there will not be natural gas delivery to the national network from Turkgozu entry point for 14 gas days,” BOTAS said in a statement.
BOTAS also said it did not expect any supply-demand balance issues in the national transmission network during maintenance.
In the third quarter of this year, the Shah Deniz Alfa platform will be stopped for scheduled maintenance, Bakhtiyar Aslanbayli, bp Vice-President for the Caspian region, told journalists earlier.
The contract for the development of the Shah Deniz field was signed in Baku on June 4, 1996 and ratified by the Parliament on October 17 of the same year.
In accordance with the documents signed on December 17, 2013 in Baku, the contract for the development of Shah Deniz was extended from 2036 to 2048, and the share of SOCAR and BP (project operator) in the project increased to 16.7 percent and 28.8 percent, respectively.
Share distribution among the parties to the agreement is as follows: BP - operator (29.99%), AzSD (14.35%), SGC Upstream (6.67%), Lukoil (19.99%), NICO (10%) and TPAO (19 %).