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West Azeri Platform in the Caspian Sea Reaches 1 Billion Barrels. Family Members of SOCAR, MOL, INPEX, Equinor, ExxonMobil, TPAO, ITOCHU, and ONGCVidesh Celebrate.
The West Azeri platform, part of the ACG oil structure in the Caspian Sea, recently reached the milestone of 1 billion barrels in total production.
The announcement was made by BP, the operator of the ACG oil field, on behalf of its partners SOCAR, MOL, INPEX, Equinor, ExxonMobil, TPAO, ITOCHU, and ONGCVidesh. The West Azeri production platform has significantly contributed to the 4.3 billion barrels of total production from ACG since the field started in November 1997.
Elkhan Mammadov Celebrates the Success of the Second Billion-Dollar Platform
We now have the West Azeri as our second billion-dollar platform, and we look forward to continuing this remarkable series of success stories.
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I would like to congratulate all the teams that contributed to this brilliant success and thank everyone for their safe and efficient performance and excellent delivery. My special thanks to the family members of West Azerbaijan who have been part of this great asset since its first day, said Elkhan Mammadov, Vice President of Production at BP, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey region.
The West Azerbaijan platform was inaugurated in December 2005.
Currently, about 200 people work on the platform, the majority of whom are citizens of Azerbaijan, including both platform managers.
Production of the West Azerbaijan Platform
More than 40 wells and several deviations have been drilled in West Azerbaijan since 2005. Currently, 35 of them are active – 26 producers and nine water injectors.
One of the first wells that came into operation in 2005 is C-06 – a top producer well with an initial production rate of 35,000 barrels of oil per day. To date, the well has delivered a total production of 80 million barrels.
The current daily production of West Azerbaijan is 85,000 barrels of oil.
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