Since the end of 2006 till mid-April 2016 61 billion cub.m. of gas and 16 million tons of condensate has been extracted from the offshore gas condensate field Shah Deniz, Academician Khoshbakht Yusifzada, SOCAR’s Senior Vice President, said at the session of the Presidium of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.
Yusifzada said that at present six wells operate on the Shah Deniz Phase 1 project. Total production rate of the wells is 28-29 million cub.m. of gas a day.
The main part of the extracted gas is exported. Gas from the Shah Deniz field is supplied to the local market of Azerbaijan.
“Of the extracted volume of gas 33 billion cub.m. has been exported to Turkey and Georgia,” Yusifzada said.
One can draw a conclusion that during these years local market of Azerbaijan used about 46% of gas extracted from the Shah Deniz field.
The natural gas resources on this field are estimated at 1.2 trillion cub.m. of gas and 240 million tons of condensate.—0—
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