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By Trend

BP Azerbaijan has resumed production of natural gas at the biggest gas condensate field Shah Deniz in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea that was stopped earlier due to maintenance work at the platform.

“On August 25, all planned work was completed, and gas production from the Shah Deniz platform was resumed. Currently, the whole system (platform, Sangachal terminal, South Caucasus Pipeline) has been gradually put into operation,” said Tamam Bayatly, communications manager of the BP Azerbaijan Communication and External Affairs Department.

Earlier, BP - operator of the Shah Deniz field development project – announced that in accordance with its annual work programme, production from the Shah Deniz platform will be suspended on 14 August for about 14 days to enable efficient maintenance, inspection and project work to be undertaken.

Bayatly told Trend that the entire work program has been completed successfully and safely, and the maintenance work has been completed before the planned time.

She went on to say that respectively, the export of gas from Shah Deniz to Georgia and Turkey has been restored.

A contract for development of the Shah Deniz offshore field was signed on June 4, 1996. The field's reserve is estimated at 1.2 trillion cubic meters of gas.

Azerbaijan produced 5.1 billion cubic meters of gas and 1.2 million tons of condensate (nearly 9.7 million barrels) in January-June 2017, as compared to about 5.4 billion cubic meters of gas and 1.3 million tons of condensate in the same period of 2016.

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