DEVELOPMENT OF SHAH DENIZ STAGE 2 GAS CONDENSATE FIELD

BP is just in the process of bringing on the next four wells in the second cluster as part of the development of the Azerbaijani Shah Deniz Stage 2 gas condensate field, Gary Jones, BP’s regional president for Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, said in an interview with Energy Intelligence.
“So, there's various stages of additional gas coming through to ramp up, eventually into an additional 16 Bcm per annum,” he said.
“The initial Shah Deniz output was about 10 Bcm per year,” Jones said. “Once Shah Deniz 2 is fully on, with all four clusters, we will then get an additional 16 Bcm/yr, so there will be 26 Bcm/yr of Shah Deniz capacity of which 10 Bcm/yr will eventually end up in southern Europe.”
“We'll continue ramping up the gas due to go to Turkey,” he said.
“There is some exploration activity on Shah Deniz,” he said. “There is the Shah Deniz Deep prospect that we will drill in 2020. So that could open up more options for gas, especially now that we've got the infrastructure in place,” he stressed.
Shah Deniz 2 is the starting point of the new Southern Gas Corridor, which will deliver Caspian resources directly to European gas markets for the first time. At plateau, the project is expected to add 16 billion cubic meters of gas per year (bcma) to the existing production. Total production from the Shah Deniz field will be up to 26 bcma of gas and up to 120,000 barrels of condensate a day. The proved reserves of the field reach 1.2 trillion cubic meters of gas and 240 million tons of condensate.