Oil and condensate exports from Sangachal terminal increase in 2022

In 2022, the Sangachal terminal exported more than 232 million barrels of oil and condensate, up 1 million barrels or 0.43% from the previous year, bp-Azerbaijan told Report.

This included about 225 million barrels through Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) (+25 million barrels or 12.5%) and around 7 million barrels through the Western Route Export Pipeline (WREP) (-24 million barrels or 4.4 times).

On average, around 68 million standard cubic metres (about 2,416 million standard cubic feet) of Shah Deniz gas was sent from the terminal daily during the year of 2022, up 7 million cubic metres or 11.5% from a year earlier.

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 metres of Shah Deniz gas, while overall processing and export capacity for gas, including ACG associated gas, is around 100 million standard cubic metres 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.