Azerbaijan, Baku, April 22 / Trend /
Azerbaijan started gas pumping into underground gas storages. Currently, the amount of pumping is seven million cubic meters, but in the coming days, this figure will increase, a source in the oil and gas market said.
During 2010, the amount of gas pumping into underground gas storages in Azerbaijan will increase to three billion cubic meters compared to two billion in 2009.
Currently, major efforts to increase the active amounts of gas storage in underground gas storages are underway in Azerbaijan. In addition, from 2009 about one billion cubic meters of gas pumped in the 2009 remained in these gas storages.
Gas pumping into underground storages in Azerbaijan for use in the autumn-winter period usually begins April 15 and continues until October 15.
At present, SOCAR (State Oil Company of Azerbaijan) drills well at the Kalmaz underground gas storage within the project to increase the storage capacity of the facility.
These operations are held within increasing active amounts of storage of the field from 1.2 billion cubic meters to 2.4 billion cubic meters.
Azerbaijan has two underground gas storages Garadag and Kalmaz.
In 2009, SOCAR pumped record amounts of gas in the amount of about two billion cubic meters into underground gas storages of the country compared to 1.4 billion in 2008. Around 1.16 billion cubic meters of gas was pumped into Kalmaz gas storage, and more than 795.3 million cubic meters of gas was pumped into Garadag in 2009.