“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 Bayatly.
She added that the entire work program has been completed successfully and safely, and the maintenance work has been completed before the planned time.
The communications manager 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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