BTC oil export from Sangachal terminal up by 8%

During the first quarter of 2023, the Sangachal terminal exported about 56 million barrels of oil and condensate (-1 million barrels or 1.75%), Report informs, citing bp's 2023 Q1 results.

This included about 55 million barrels (-4 million barrels or 7.84%) through Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) and around 1 million barrels (5 million barrels or 83.3%) through the Western Route Export Pipeline (WREP).

On average, around 73 million standard cubic metres (about 2,583 million standard cubic feet) of Shah Deniz gas (+2 million barrels or 2.8%) was sent from the terminal daily during the first quarter of 2023.

In the first quarter of 2023, oil and gas from ACG and Shah Deniz continued to flow via subsea pipelines to the Sangachal terminal.

The daily capacity of the terminal’s processing systems is currently 1.2 million barrels of crude oil and condensate, and about 81 million standard cubic metres of Shah Deniz gas, while overall processing and export capacity for gas, including ACG associated gas is around 100 million standard cubic metres per day.

Gas is exported via the South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP), the SCP expansion system and via Azerbaijan’s pipelines connecting the terminal’s gas processing facilities with Azerigas’s national grid system.