BP to perform maintenance on Central Azeri Platform in August
BP's regional president for Azerbaijan and Georgia, as well as Turkey, Giovanni Cristofoli, said that the company plans to perform scheduled'maintenance on the Central Azeri -platform in August 2026.
He added that the shutdown would only affect the gas infrastructure of the platform, and oil production would continue. He added that maintenance usually lasts for 19 days. The shorter outage is possible because of the new technologies.
BP is the largest foreign investor and operator in Azerbaijan’s oil and natural gas sector.
The ?company operates Azerbaijan's largest oil and gas projects, ?including the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli ?oil field, the Shah Deniz gas condensate field, and the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline and the Southern Gas Corridor.
The company is also involved with several exploration and project development projects off the coast of Azerbaijan.
Cristofoli said that the group was also in discussions with the Azerbaijani State Oil Company SOCAR regarding possible cooperation in the Ustyurt project in Uzbekistan.
"SOCAR already began seismic exploration." He said that he could not make formal announcements at this stage, but he confirmed they were actively working with SOCAR to reach an agreement.
SOCAR owns a 50% stake in the project.
The Ustyurt?project, located in western Uzbekistan on the Ustyurt Plateau, is considered a promising hydrocarbon exploration area. (Reporting and editing by Jan Harvey; Nailia Bagirova)
(source: Reuters)
