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NEXT YEAR - MAJOR PHASE IN SHAHDENIZ PROJECT

31.12.2005 [14:34]
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The fourth pre-drill development well will be completed within the first phase of Shahdeniz project in 2006, and other evaluation wells will be drilled, too. The subsea pipe-lay will go on and the onshore and offshore production tests at the TPG-500 platform will be completed as well, Azerbaijan International Operating Company said.

Simultaneously, the Shahdeniz part at Sngachal terminal will be completed, production tests at the South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP) will begin and it will be ready to transport first gas. The joint works of BOTAS, GBNK and Azerigas objects will also rounded.

Transportation of first gas from Shahdeniz, one of the important projects of the “Contract of the Century”, will be the beginning of the new phase.