石油设备网讯 据阿塞拜疆新闻网巴库报道，英国油气巨头英国石油公司（BP）将在里海阿塞拜疆一侧海域进行地震测量作业来评估这个盆地内有远景的油气构造。
自1992年以来继续与BP的合作对阿塞拜疆石油和天然气工业的发展具有极其重要的意义。不久，BP将开始在位于里海阿塞拜疆一侧海域有远景的D230区块内进行地震测量作业。BP对该区块寄予厚望。如果勘探成功，可能会在那里开辟出阿塞拜疆第二个阿泽里-奇拉格-久涅什利(ACG)油田群。
D230区块距离阿塞拜疆海岸线大约80公里，水深100至800米，这个区块的面积大约3222平方公里。
BP阿塞拜疆、格鲁吉亚和土耳其地区总裁盖理·琼斯日前在巴库表示：“BP计划今年9月在预期的D230区块内进行三维地震测量作业。”
琼斯补充说，根据地震测量作业的结果，该公司计划在2020年年中开始钻探该区块的第一口探井。
他指出，BP预计将在D230区块内发现石油，并在Absheron半岛附近浅水区（SWAP）进行勘探钻井作业。“众所周知，我们已经签署了一份开发SWAP的合同。这是一份很有前途的合同，有很大的潜力。根据合同地区的勘探作业结果，我们希望能发现石油，”琼斯如是说。
用琼斯的话说，BP计划在今年底开始在SWAP开钻第一口探井。
阿塞拜疆国家石油公司（SOCAR）和BP在2018年4月签署了一份产量分成协议(PSA)，双方将联合勘探里海阿塞拜疆一侧海域北部Absheron盆地D230区块的潜在构造。
根据PSA协议，BP持有50%的权益，并将在勘探阶段运营这个项目，其余50%权益将由SOCAR持有。
李峻 编译自 阿塞拜疆新闻
原文如下：
BP expects to discover oil at new block
BP, a British oil and gas company, conducts seismic surveys in the Caspian Sea to evaluate perspective hydrocarbon structures within the basin.
The cooperation with BP continuing since 1992 is of the utmost importance in the development of oil and gas industry in Azerbaijan. Shortly, the company will begin seismic survey at the prospective D230 block in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea. BP has high expectations for the block. In case of successful exploration results, a ‘second’ Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) may be opened there.
Block D230 is located approximately 80 km from the Azerbaijani coastline in water depths ranging between 100 and 800 m and covers an area of about 3,222 square kilometers.
“BP plans to launch three-dimensional (3D) seismic explorations at the prospective D230 block in September this year,” Gary Jones, BP’s regional president for Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey said on July 4 in Baku.
Jones added that depending on the results of the seismic explorations, for which the expectations are positive, the company plans to start drilling the first exploration well at this block in mid-2020.
He noted that BP expects to discover oil on the D230 block as well as following exploratory drilling in the shallow waters around the Absheron Peninsula (SWAP). “As known, we have signed a contract for the development of the SWAP. This is a very promising contract, with great potential. According to the results of exploration work on this contract area, we expect to discover oil.”
In his words, the company plans to start drilling the first exploratory well in SWAP in late 2019.
SOCAR and BP signed a production sharing agreement (PSA) in April 2018 to conduct joint exploration work on potential prospective structures of the D230 block in the North Absheron basin in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea.
Under the PSA, which is for 25 years, BP, holding a 50 percent interest, will be the operator during the exploration phase, while SOCAR will hold the remaining 50 percent interest.
