In 2015 production on the bloc of fields Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) dropped by 200,000 tons and totaled 31.3 million tons or 231 million barrels, reads the report of BP-Azerbaijan company.
The consortium extracted 634,000 barrels of oil a day on average on the contract area. In 2014 the production totaled 638,000 barrels a day.
In 2015 average daily oil production on the Chirag platform totaled 48,000 barrels, on Central Azeri – 154,000 barrels, om Western Azeri – 110,300 barrels, on Eastern Azeri – 71,000 barrels, on deep-water Guneshli – 141,400 barrels and on Western Chirag – 109,400 barrels.
By the end of 2015 91 oil, 42 gas and water injection wells have been operating on the ACG.
During last year ACG drilled 15 oil and 2 water wells. Thus, number of oil wells increased by 7, while gas and injection wells by 3.
The ACG shareholders include BP (operator with 35.8%), SOCAR (11.6%), Chevron (11.3%), Inpex (11%), Statoil (8.6%), ExxonMobil (8%), TPAO (6.8%), Itochu (4.3%) and ONGC Videsh Ltd. (2.7%).—0--
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