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Azerbaijan boosts natural gas production, export in 1H2021

2 August 2021 11:36 (UTC+04:00)
Azerbaijan boosts natural gas production, export in 1H2021

By Ayya Lmahamad

Azerbaijan increased gas production and export while decreasing oil production and export during the period of January-June 2021.

Gas production and export

During the first half of the year, Azerbaijan increased natural gas production by 5.1 percent or 990 million cubic meters, compared to the same period of 2020. Thus, in the reported period, the country produced 20.3 billion cubic meters of gas.

Of the total natural gas production, the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli block of fields accounted for 6.4 billion cubic meters of gas produced and Shah Deniz for 10 billion cubic meters. In the meantime, SOCAR has produced 3.9 billion cubic meters of gas.

Moreover, in the reported period, gas sales abroad amounted to 9.1 billion cubic meters, which is by 36 percent more than in the same period of 2020.

Turkey accounted for 4.7 billion cubic meters of Azerbaijan’s natural gas export. In addition, 3.2 billion cubic meters of gas were transported to Europe and 1.2 billion cubic meters of gas to Georgia.

It should be noted that in January-June 2021, the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline system was supplied with 50.5 million cubic meters of gas. In the meantime, 2.7 billion cubic meters of gas was exported to Turkey through TANAP.

Oil production and export

Some 17.2 million tons of oil, including condensate, were produced in Azerbaijan in the first six months of 2021, which is by 369,100 tons less than in the same period of 2020.

Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli block of fields accounted for 11.4 million tons of oil, while Shah Deniz accounted for 1.9 million tons of condensate. In the meantime, SOCAR’s oil production, including condensate, amounted to 3.9 million tons.

Furthermore, some 14 million tons of oil, including condensate, were exported in January-June, which is by 4.8 percent or 667,000 tons less than in the corresponding period of 2020.

The consortium accounted for 13.3 million tons of oil export, while SOCAR for 738,700 tons.

Likewise, since the commissioning of Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli and Shah Deniz fields till July 1, 2021, some 567 million tons of oil, including condensate, have been produced, and 567 million tons of oil, including condensate, exported. Some 535 million tons of crude oil were extracted from ACG, while 32 million tons of condensate from Shah Deniz.

Additionally, since their commissioning till July 1, 2021, some 183 billion cubic meters of gas was produced from the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli block of fields and 145 billion cubic meters from the Shah Deniz field. Since commissioning, more than 98 billion cubic meters of gas were exported from the Shah Deniz field.

By the end of six months of 2021, Azerbaijan refined 3.3 million tons of oil, which is by 276,300 tons more than in the same period last year.

The contract for the development of the ACG oil fields was signed on September 20, 1994, and entered force in December. The contract for the development of the ACG block was extended to 2050 in September 2017.

The shareholders in the ACG project are BP (operator, 30.37 percent), SOCAR (25 percent), MOL (9.57 percent), INPEX (9.31 percent), Equinor (7.27 percent), ExxonMobil (6.79 percent), TPAO (5.73 percent), ITOCHU (3.65 percent), ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) (2.31 percent).

The contract on the development of the Shah Deniz gas field was signed in 1996. Shareholders of Shah Deniz project are: BP (operator, 28.8 percent), TPAO (19 percent), AzSD (10 percent), SGC Upstream (6.7 percent), PETRONAS (15.5 percent), LUKOIL (10 percent) and NICO (10 percent).

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Ayya Lmahamad is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow her on Twitter: @AyyaLmahamad

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