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Azerbaijan’s ACG block holds 1bn tons of oil: energy exec

3 June 2010 02:05 (UTC+04:00)
Azerbaijan’s ACG block holds 1bn tons of oil: energy exec

Recoverable reserves at Azerbaijan’s major Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli fields in the Caspian Sea are currently estimated at 1 billion tons of oil and 350 billion cubic meters of gas, Rovnag Abdullayev, the president of Azerbaijan’s state energy firm SOCAR, said Wednesday.
He told the Caspian oil and gas conference in Baku that the reserves of the fields have turned out to be double the volume projected initially, following exploration. According to Abdullayev, the Chirag Oil Project, which will be developed under an agreement signed in March, will allow extending the period of high production rate at ACG by up to three years.*

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