Shah Deniz gas export from Sangachal terminal up 27% 

In the first quarter of 2022, more than 57 million barrels of oil and condensate from ACG and Shah Deniz continued to flow via subsea pipelines to the Sangachal terminal, 3 million barrels or 5% less than a year earlier, bp Azerbaijan told Report.

During the quarter, the Sangachal terminal exported about 51 million barrels through Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) and around 6 million barrels through the Western Route Export Pipeline (WREP), respectively 1 million barrels or 1.9% and 2 million barrels or 25% less than the previous year.

On average, around 71 million standard cubic metres (about 2,500 million standard cubic feet) of Shah Deniz gas were sent from the terminal daily during the reporting period, up 15 million cubic meters or 26.8% from the previous year.

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 the 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 via Azerbaijan’s pipelines connecting the terminal’s gas processing facilities with Azerigas’s national grid system.