According to the Azerbaijan State Statistical Committee, during 2013 Azerbaijan extracted 43,083,300 tons of oil and condensate, up 0.2% against 2012.
Yesterday Turan published SOCAR’s oil and condensate production data in 2013, without taking into consideration of BP-Azerbaijan company’s operations (Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) oil bloc and Shah-Deniz gas condensate field) – 8,314,400 tons of oil against 8,242,500 tons in 2012.
These data could be used to calculate production of liquid hydrocarbons by BP-Azerbaijan in 2013 - 34,768,900 tons.
According to BP-Azerbaijan company, during 2013 production of condensate from the Shah-Deniz field remained 54,000 barrels a dat. This means that last year 2,266,500 tons of condensate was extracted from the Shah-Deniz field. Then BP-Azerbaijan could extract 32,502,400 tons from the ACG contract area.
During 2012 BP extracted 32.9 million tons of oil on ACG and 2 million tons of condensate from Shah-Deniz.
BP-Azerbaijan company will release its statistics for year 2013 in early March 2013.—0-
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