During the quarter, the Shah Deniz field continued to provide deliveries of gas to markets in Azerbaijan (to SOCAR), Georgia (to GOGC and SOCAR), Turkey (to BOTAS), and BTC Company in multiple locations, Report informs, referring to BP-Azerbaijan.
Gas deliveries to buyers in Europe that started on 31 December 2020 also continued during the first quarter of 2021.
In the first three months of 2021, the field produced more than 5.1 billion standard cubic metres (bcm) of gas and around 1 million tonnes (7.8 million barrels) of condensate in total from the Shah Deniz Alpha and Shah Deniz Bravo platforms, respectively, up 8.5% and 1.3% from a year ago.
The existing Shah Deniz facilities’ production capacity is currently over 58 million standard cubic metres of gas per day or more than 21 bcma.
Shah Deniz participating interests are: BP (operator – 28.8%), TPAO (19.0%), PETRONAS (15.5%), AzSD (10.0%), LUKOIL (10.0%), NICO (10.0%) and SGC Upstream (6.7%).