AZERBAIJAN - The South Caucasus Gas Pipeline.Development of BTC BTC Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (crude oil pipeline) BTC Belgische Technische Coöperatie (Dutch: Belgian Technical Cooperation) BTC Berlinale Talent Campus BTC Business Travel Coalition has been co-ordinated with the South Caucasus South Caucasus, also referred to as Transcaucasia or Transcaucasus, is the southern portion of the Caucasus region between Europe and Asia, extending from the Greater Caucasus to the Turkish and Iranian borders, between the Black and Caspian Seas. Gas Pipeline (SCGP SCGP Supplier Credit Guarantee Program SCGP Shell Coal Gasification Process SCGP Self Contained Guidance Package ) project, to be completed later in 2006. This will follow the same route via Azerbaijan and Georgia but will end at Turkey's existing gas transmission system at Erzerum. The SCGP will start at the offshore Shah Deniz gas field Shah Deniz gas field is the largest natural gas field in Azerbaijan. It is situated in the South Caspian Sea, off the coast of Azerbaijan, approximately 70 kilometers southeast of Bakubat, at a depth of 600 metres. The field covers approximately 860 square kilometers. , being developed to a capacity of 8.5 BCM/year of gas and 37,000 b/d of condensate condensate, matter in the form of a gas of atoms, molecules, or elementary particles that have been so chilled that their motion is virtually halted and as a consequence they lose their separate identities and merge into a single entity. . Some of the gas will be used in Azerbaijan and Georgia, under deals already signed, and the bulk will be taken by Botas for the Turkish market - with any surplus eventually to be sold to Greece through a pipeline being built. The Shah Deniz condensate will be exported by the oil pipelines. At a later phase Shah Deniz will be developed further to supply 16 BCM/year to Turkey and Europe from 2010. By then Shah Deniz will produce more than 70,000 b/d of condensate as well. Planners in Baku hope the SCGP will eventually be able to export up to 50 BCM/year of natural gas (see gmt2AzerProd-Jul10-06). |
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