BP expects to drill the first production deep gas well as the largest oilfield in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian basin.
BP expects to drill in the second half of 2024 the first production deep gas well at the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli ACG oilfield, the largest oilfield in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian basin. “Last year, we drilled an appraisal well on ACG to explore the deep gas reservoirs under the producing oil field,” Katerina Papalexandri, vice president gas and low-carbon energy growth, Caspian at BP, said at an event in Baku, as carried by news agency Trend.
At the end of last year, BP also started drilling the first production well from a new platform developing the next $6-billion stage of the ACG field. BP announced that the first production well was spudded from the new Azeri Central East ACE platform, following the safe completion of all offshore hook-up, installation, and commissioning of the ACE topsides unit which sailed away from the Bayil fabrication yard in August 2023.