Production at Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli hits 44 million barrels

Baku, April 30 - Neftegaz.RU. The total production at Azerbaijan's Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) block of fields amounted to 44 million barrels in the 1^st quarter of 2021, BP Azerbaijan has said in its report.

According to the report, during the reported period:

• the total production on the block of fields amounted to 484,000 barrels per day
• the Chirag field accounted for 30,000 b/d
• Central Azeri for 112,000 b/d
• West Azeri for 130,000 b/d
• East Azeri for 79,000 b/d
• Deepwater Gunashli for 89,000 b/d
• West Chirag for 44,000 b/d

At the end of the quarter, 133 wells were producing oil, while 45 wells were used for water and 8 for gas injection.
In addition, ACG completed 3 oil producer and 2 injector wells.

During the reported period, ACG delivered 1 billion m³, or an average of 11.6 million m³ per day, of ACG associated gas to SOCAR, primarily at the Sangachal Terminal, and to SOCAR’s Oil Rocks facility.
The remained of the associated gas produced was re-injected for reservoir pressure maintenance.

Likewise, the company spent over $142 million in operating expenditure and more than $463 million in capital expenditure on the ACG activities, in the 1^st 3 months of the year.

In January-March 2021, the Shah Deniz field produced around 5.1 billion m³ of gas and 1 million tonnes of condensate.
It should be noted that the existing Shah Deniz facilities’ production capacity is currently over 58 million m³ of gas per day.

Author: Ayya Lmahamad