BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 1. During the first six months of the year, Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) delivered an average of around 6.4 million cubic metres per day of ACG associated gas to the state of Azerbaijan (1.2 billion cubic metres in total), primarily at the Sangachal terminal but also to SOCAR’s Oil Rocks facility, as compared to 6 million cubic metres per day delivered in 1H2023, Trend reports via bp.
The remainder of the associated gas produced was re-injected for reservoir pressure maintenance.
Associated gas deliveries from ACG thereby rose by 6.7 percent year-on-year.
“In the first half of 2024, we continued planning works for the future development of the non-associated gas (NAG) resources in the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli structure based on the data obtained from the appraisal well (A22z). The well was spudded on 7 February 2023 and completed in April of the same year. The well was drilled to deep reservoirs in the south flank location of the ACG structure. It was drilled from the Chirag platform as a sidetrack of an injector well. The well was successful, and we are optimistic about the future gas in ACG. With all commercial discussions now finalized, we plan to start drilling an initial production well later this year,” said bp.
BP Exploration (Caspian Sea) Limited is the operator on behalf of the Contractor Parties to the ACG Production Sharing Agreement.
ACG participating interests are: bp (30.37%), SOCAR (25.0%), MOL (9.57%), INPEX (9.31%), Equinor (7.27%), ExxonMobil (6.79%), TPAO (5.73%), ITOCHU (3.65%), ONGCVidesh (2.31%).
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