Shah Deniz increases gas production by over 12% this year 

In the first nine months of the year, the Shah Deniz field produced about 18 billion standard cubic meters (bscm) of gas and more than 3 million tons (about 27 million barrels) of condensate in total from the Shah Deniz Alpha and Shah Deniz Bravo platforms, BP-Azerbaijan told Report.

The volume of gas production from the Shah Deniz field was 12.5% more than in January-September last year, and the volume of condensate production was almost the same.

The existing Shah Deniz facilities’ production capacity is, currently, about 73 million standard cubic meters of gas per day or more than 26.5 bcma.

As part of the Shah Deniz annual work program, a planned maintenance program (turnaround - TAR) was successfully implemented on the Shah Deniz Alpha platform and Shah Deniz 1 facilities inside the Sangachal terminal in the third quarter. In accordance with the plan, production from the Shah Deniz Alpha platform was suspended for about 14 days to enable efficient maintenance, inspection, and project work to be undertaken. The program, which was designed to maintain the long-term ability of the platform to produce in a safe, reliable, and environmentally sound way, was completed safely and on schedule.

Shah Deniz participating interests are: bp (operator – 29.99%), LUKOIL (19.99%), TPAO (19.00%), SOCAR (14.35%), NICO (10.00%) and SGC (6.67%).