Export of Shah Deniz gas from Sangachal terminal rises more than 15% 

In the third quarter of 2022, oil and gas from ACG and Shah Deniz continued to flow via subsea pipelines to the Sangachal terminal.

During the first three quarters, the Sangachal terminal exported more than 171 million barrels of oil and condensate, down 1 million barrels or 0.6% from the previous year, Report informs, citing BP-Azerbaijan.

In the reporting period, 164 million barrels were exported through Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) and around 7 million barrels through the Western Route Export Pipeline (WREP), respectively, up 16 million barrels (10.8%) and down 17 million barrels (70.8%) from a year earlier.

On average, around 67 million standard cubic meters (about 2,362 million standard cubic feet) of Shah Deniz gas was sent from the terminal daily in the three quarters of 2022, 9 million standard cubic meters or 15.5% more than the same period of 2021.

The daily capacity of the terminal’s processing systems is currently 1.2 million barrels of crude oil and condensate and about 81 million standard cubic meters of Shah Deniz gas, while overall processing and export capacity for gas, including ACG associated gas, is around 100 million standard cubic meters per day.

Gas is exported via the South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP), the SCP expansion system, and Azerbaijan’s pipelines connecting the terminal’s gas processing facilities with Azerigas’s national grid system.