UK supermajor BP has hit a milestone on 15 August at its Azeri-Chirag-Deepwater Gunashli field offshore Azerbaijan, by producing 3 billion bbl since the start of production from the Chirag platform in 1997.
ACG is a complex of six production platforms: Chirag-1, Central Azeri, West Azeri, East Azeri, Deepwater Gunashli, West Chirag; and two process, gas compression, water injection and utilities (PCWU) platforms. The ACG field is about 100km east of Baku is the largest oilfield in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian basin.
The last phase in the series to date was the Chirag Oil Project, which was sanctioned in 2010. As part of this phase, the West Chirag platform was installed between the existing Chirag and Deepwater Gunashli platforms. First oil from the platform was achieved on 28 January 2014.
The ACG field has been developed in several phases: The Chirag platform started producing in 1997 as part of the Early Oil Project. This was followed by Phase 1, the Azeri Project, during which production started from the Central Azeri platform in early 2005. Phase 2 included West Azeri and East Azeri, starting production in December 2005 and in late 2006 respectively. The next ACG development phase - Phase 3 Deepwater Gunashli - started up in April 2008.
“Since the first production from the early project on Chirag to the start-up of the latest West Chirag platform in the complex in early 2014, we have consistently delivered exceptionally high plant reliability. This, combined with great performance in new well delivery from colleagues in Global Wells Organization and Reservoir Development, has resulted in this great milestone of 3 billion barrels of oil produced. We can therefore look forward, with confidence, to the next 3 billion barrels,” Tony Hunt, BP operations vice president said.
Image from BP.
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