石油设备网讯 据路透社巴库报道，石油巨头英国石油公司（BP）与阿塞拜疆在一份声明中表示，BP和阿塞拜疆国家石油公司（SOCAR）于上周五签署了一项协议，为这个南高加索国家的三大油田建设一个新的勘探平台。
该公司表示，阿塞拜疆巨型Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG)油田的最新阶段——Azeri中央东部 (ACE) 平台,预计每天生产 100000 桶石油，建造成本为 60亿美元。
该项目是阿塞拜疆今年迄今为止最大的上游投资决策之一。
到目前为止，ACG油田已生产了35亿桶石油，有可能再生产30亿桶石油。
伍德麦肯齐的高级分析师Robert Morris在一份声明中说，BP现在的主要目标是最大限度地提取剩余储量。
他说：“ACE是这些计划的核心，在21世纪20年代中期达到高峰时，每日增产10万桶。”
BP和阿塞拜疆在2017年将其发展ACG油田的协议延长到2050年，阿塞拜疆政府在1994年首次签署该协议时称之为“世纪合同”，该协议最初安排将持续到2024年。
另外，SOCAR以及其在BP领导的ACG的合作伙伴计划参与招标，收购其两名成员埃克森美孚和雪佛龙出售的股份。
SOCAR 总裁Rovnag Abdullayev告诉记者，这个决定是在周五做出的。
詹晓晶摘自路透社
原文如下：
BP, SOCAR sign deal to build new Azeri oil exploration platform
Oil major BP and Azerbaijan’s state energy company SOCAR signed an agreement on Friday to build a new exploration platform for the South Caucasus nation’s three major oilfields, BP-Azerbaijan said in a statement.
The Azeri Central East (ACE) platform, the latest phase of Azerbaijan’s giant Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) oilfields, is expected to produce 100,000 barrels of oil a day and cost $6 billion to build, the company said.
The project is one of the biggest upstream investment decisions in Azerbaijan so far this year.
The ACG fields, which have so far produced 3.5 billion barrels of oil, have the potential to yield another 3 billion barrels.
BP’s main aim now would be to maximize the extraction of remaining reserves, Robert Morris, senior analyst at Wood Mackenzie, said in a statement.
“ACE is central to those plans, adding 100,000 barrels per day of production at peak in the mid-2020s,” he said.
BP and Azerbaijan in 2017 extended their agreement to develop the ACG fields to 2050, a deal dubbed by the Azeri government as “the contract of the century” when first signed in 1994. The arrangement was initially due to run until 2024.
Separately, SOCAR and its partners at the BP-led ACG consortium plan to participate in a tender to acquire stakes being sold by two of its members, Exxon Mobil and Chevron.
SOCAR President Rovnag Abdullayev told reporters that the decision was made on Friday.
