Sangachal terminal exports 66 million barrels of oil and condensate in Q1 of 2020

Baku, May 12, AZERTAC In the first quarter of 2020, the Sangachal terminal exported about 66 million barrels of oil and condensate, according to BP Azerbaijan. This included about 58 million barrels through Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) and over 8 million barrels through the Western Route Export Pipeline (WREP). The daily capacity of the terminal’s processing systems is currently 1.2 million barrels of crude oil and condensate, and about 85 million standard cubic metres of Shah Deniz gas, while overall processing and export capacity for gas, including ACG associated gas is around 105 million standard cubic metres per day. During the quarter, oil and gas from ACG and Shah Deniz continued to flow via subsea pipelines to the Sangachal terminal. Gas is exported via the South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP), the South Caucasus Pipeline expansion system and via SOCAR gas pipelines connecting the terminal’s gas processing facilities with Azerigas’s national grid system. On average, more than 51 million standard cubic metres (about 1,800 million standard cubic feet) of Shah Deniz gas was exported from the terminal daily in in the first quarter of 2020.