BAKU, Azerbaijan, Jun.25. Bahar Energy Operating Company (BEOC) utilized 1.7 MMcfd for fuel gas in Gum Deniz & Bahar operations in May 2022, Trend reports with reference to the US Greenfields Petroleum Company, which operates the project through its subsidiary BEOC.
“The increased gas utilization resulted from delivering gas to sales at higher pressures, which required additional compression fuel.
Total production of 3906 BOE/d in May was up 5 percent from the prior month but remains 34 percent below the Budget forecast for the month. This shortfall is mainly due to the longer period of the Bahar workovers to reach the deeper target zones. Oil production was 439 Bopd, down by 21 Bopd from April 2022, due to a slight decline in GD479 due to sand influx to the wellbore and ongoing well maintenance. Gas production was 20.9 MMcfd, which was up 0.4 MMcfd from April production due to bringing on production BH165 well on Platform 168. Unfortunately, B169 well production stopped due to a hole in the production string.
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 Gum Deniz Oil Field is located south of the Absheron peninsula, 21 km south of Baku, between Gum Island and the Bahar Gas Field. The Gum Deniz Oil Field extends from onshore Gum Island, which is 2.5 km from the mainland to the south in the Caspian Sea. The Gum Deniz Oil Field is found along the Fatmai–Gum Adasi anticlinal trend which includes the Bahar and Shakh Deniz structures. Oil in the Gum Deniz Oil Field is trapped in a north-south trending structure that is approximately 16 kilometres in length and 3 kilometres in width. The Gum Deniz Oil Field is structurally up-dip from the Bahar Gas Field. The fields are separated by a structural saddle. The Gum Deniz Oil Field has been on production since 1955.
Greenfields Petroleum Corporation, through its wholly owned subsidiary Bahar Energy Limited (BEL), owns an 80 percent interest in the Exploration, Rehabilitation, Development and Production Sharing Agreement (the ERDPSA) with SOCAR and its affiliate SOCAR Oil Affiliate (SOA) in respect of the offshore block known as Bahar Gum Deniz (the Bahar Project), which consist of a Contract Rehabilitation Area (CRA) including the Bahar Gas Field and the Gum Deniz Oil Field and an Exploration Area (CEA).
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