Baku, Azerbaijan, July 20
By Leman Zeynalova – Trend:
Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping Company (ASCO) ships continue to work on Absheron gas condensate field, Trend reports citing the company.
Works on laying pipes in the Absheron gas condensate field in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea are under way.
“Aura” tow-vessel vessel and “Suleyman Vezirov” pipe- laying ship of the Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping Company (ASCO) were involved in the pipe laying operations.
The first phase of the operations has already been completed. Thus, the 13299-meter pipeline between “Darwin Bank” and “Absheron Bank” was fully laid.
At present, the pipe laying process is carried out by ships between “Absheron Bank” and “Western Absheron”. The length of this line is 11600 meters.
At the next stage, pipe –laying works will be carried out in the gas separator point No. 2 in “Bulla-Deniz” field.
It is worth emphasizing here, that 36 ship crew and 56 technical personnel are involved in the process.
SOCAR and Total signed a framework agreement in 2016 on the main contractual and commercial principles regulating the first phase of development of the Absheron field.
The first phase of the field’s development envisaged drilling one well at a sea depth of 450 meters. It is planned to produce up to 4 billion cubic meters of gas at the second stage.
Absheron’s reserves are estimated at 326 billion cubic meters of gas and 108 million tons of condensate, according to estimations of the Total specialists.
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