SOCAR further expands underground gas storage
Azerbaijan's state news agency SOCAR has commissioned a new well
on the Kalmaz onshore field on the basis of which operates one of
two underground gas storage facilities in Azerbaijan.
The company reported that the daily debit of the well is 240,000
cubic meters of gas.
There are two underground gas storage facilities in Azerbaijan:
Kalmaz and Garadagh.
Drilling of wells for underground storage facilities is carried out
in order to increase the volume of gas pumped into them. As, the
head of the SOCAR company, which include the gas storage facilities
on its sheet balance, Rovnag Abdullayev said, storage volumes in
underground storage facilities of Azerbaijan rose to five billion
cubic meters in total, whereas previously storage capabilities was
800 million cubic meters of gas.
Gas volumes in underground gas storage facilities exceeded 3.43
billion cubic meters in Azerbaijan by the end of gas injection
season, compared to about 3.3 billion cubic meters in the last
season.