Azerbaijan, Baku, May 20 / Trend /
Company BosShelf has completed construction of the bottom base plate needed for advanced drilling wells within the Chirag oil project - to increase oil production on the block of offshore Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli fields, Chirag oil project head Ilgar Mammadov said.
"The work within the construction of base plate has been completed, but earlier it was scheduled for May. By early June it will be sent to the sea to installation point," the source said.
Star Gulf FZJO together with BosShelf constructed the base plate, designed for drilling of 20 wells. The construction has been held at the construction areas of the Baku Deep Water Jacket Factory named after Heydar Aliyev.
Chirag oil project envisages construction of a new platform "West Chirag", which will be installed at a depth of 170 meters between the already-running production platforms "Chirag" and "Guneshli.
Majority of construction works within the Chirag oil project will be implemented in Azerbaijan, including - construction of drilling platform module, which was built for previous projects abroad.
Chirag oil project предполагает инвестиции в объеме шести миллиардов долларов.
Estimated daily volume of oil production from the West Chirag platform will amount to 183,000 barrels, the Director of BP Company's offshore facilities project in Azerbaijan. The expected daily volume of gas production from the new platform will be more than 6.5 million cubic meters. Estimated daily volume of gas injection into the layer on the platform will be about 2.3 million cubic meters.
Construction of a new platform within the Chirag oil project (COP), which envisages increasing oil production at the block of Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) fields, is scheduled to begin in late 2010 - early 2011. Dede Gorgud rig will perform the drilling. The project is expected to get oil in 2013.
It is reckoned that the new Chirag Oil Project will add more than 300 million barrels of crude oil to the pipeline during the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) period.
ACG participating interests are: BP (operator - 34.1 percent), Chevron (10.2 percent), SOCAR (10 percent), INPEX (10 percent), StatoilHydro (8.6 percent), ExxonMobil (8 percent), TPAO (6.8 percent), Devon (5.6 percent), ITOCHU (3.9 percent), and Delta Hess (2.7 percent).
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