BAKU, Azerbaijan, Aug.13
By Leman Zeynalova – Trend:
Gas production at Azerbaijan’s Bahar field stood at 589,893 cubic meters per day in May 2021, as compared to the budgeted volume of 568,000 cubic meters per day, Trend reports with reference to the US Greenfields Petroleum Company, which operates the project through its subsidiary BEOC.
The field saw a month-on-month increase in production, since April brought 578,516 cubic meters per day. Bahar field produced 596,055 cubic meters per day in January 2021, 589,044 cubic meters per day in February and 584,848 cubic meters per day in March.
The Bahar Gas Field is located in shallow water 40 km southeast of Baku, offshore in the South Caspian Basin. The Bahar Gas Field is located in the South Apsheron Offshore Zone of the South Caspian Basin, and is found along the Fatmai-Gum Adasi anticlinal trend which includes the Gum Deniz and Shakh Deniz structures. The Bahar structure is a north-south trending faulted anticline that is approximately 9.5 kilometres in length and 3.5 kilometres in width. The field was discovered in 1968 and production began in 1969 with cumulative production year end 2017 of 4.54 Tcf and 84 MMbbls condensate.
The Bahar Gas Field consists of 45 offshore platforms including a central processing and metering platform to gather the gas for onward transport through a three 12-inch pipelines to the shore-based gas and liquid handling facilities. The platforms, in most cases are built on 24 to 30 pilings each in an average water depth of about 16 metres.
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