Oil pumping on Baku-Supsa pipeline has been halted due to oil
extraction stopped at Chirag field, 1news.az reports, citing
BP-Azerbaijan.
BP-Azerbaijan said that oil extraction at Azeri and the deepwater part
of Guneshli and other facilities, including Sangachal terminal, is
carried out at normal mode.
The marketing and economic operations department of SOCAR (State Oil
Company of the Azerbaijani Republic) said that Baku-Supsa exported
2.681 million tons of oil in 2011, compared with 2.450 million tons in
late October.
SOCAR exported 2.792 million tons of oil along the 'western route' in 2009.
Baku-Supsa exported 407,101 tons of oil in 2008 and 250,000 tons of
the Azerbaijani international operation company (AIOC). Baku-Supsa
pipeline was stopped from September 2006 to May 2008 for repair works.
On August 12, the pipeline stopped oil export due to the events in
Georgia in October.
Baku-Supsa exported 49,174 tons of AIOC in 2007. There was no SOCAR
export using the 'western route'.
Baku-Supsa oil pipeline has a capacity of 7.5 million tons of oil
annually. Azerbaijan is currently negotiating increase of its
capacity. Kazakhstan expressed willingness to increase the capacity of
the 'western route'.
BP is the operator of Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli project (34.1%) in the
Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian. Its partners are Chevron (10.2%),
SOCAR (10%), INPEX (10%), StatoilHydro (8.6%), ExxonMobil (8%), TPAO
(6.8%), Devon (5.6%), ITOCHU (3.9%) and Hess (2.7%).
