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Azeri ( Azerbaijani: ''Azəri'') is an Azerbaijani offshore
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East Azeri is a production, drilling and quarters (PDQ) platform located in depth of water and was constructed to produce oil from the eastern section of Azeri field. East Azeri produces .
The facilities on East Azeri include:
*a 48-slot PDQ platform
The platform has started its operations in October 2006.
Image showing Chirag within ACG fields
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oil field
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in the Caspian Sea
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, located east of the capital Baku
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, and is a part of the larger Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) project. The Azeri field includes ''Central Azeri'', ''West Azeri'', ''East Azeri'' production platforms compression and water injection platform (C&WP).Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli. The largest oil field under development in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian basin./ref> The field was discovered in 1988, and originally it was named after
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Central Azeri
Central Azeri is a production, drilling and quarters (PDQ) platform located in nearly depth of water in the central part of the Azeri field. The platform is constructed to produce approximately . The facilities on Central Azeri include: *a 48-slot PDQ platform *a oil pipeline from the platform to the receiving Sangachal Terminal *a gas pipeline from the platform to Sangachal Terminal. Central Azeri has started its operations in February 2005West Azeri
West Azeri is a production, drilling and quarters (PDQ) platform located in depth of water and was constructed to produce oil from the western section of Azeri field. West Azeri adds to the overall ACG production. The facilities on West Azeri include: *a 48-slot PDQ platform *a oil pipeline from the platform to receiving Sangachal terminal The platform has started its operations in December 2005.East Azeri
East Azeri is a production, drilling and quarters (PDQ) platform located in depth of water and was constructed to produce oil from the eastern section of Azeri field. East Azeri produces .
The facilities on East Azeri include:
*a 48-slot PDQ platform
The platform has started its operations in October 2006.
Compression and water injection platform (C&WP)
The C&WP supplies Central, West and East Azeri platforms with water and gas injection services, manages gas export and provides electrical power using 10 Rolls-Royce turbines. The platform is bridge linked to Central Azeri platform. Gas injection capacity at C&WP is utilizing 5 gas injection wells. Water injection capacity is utilizing 12 water injection wells. Gas export capacity stands at . Azeri C&WP has some of the largest water injection pumps and gas injection compressors among BP platforms worldwide. The topsides have been constructed in the ATA (AMEC-Azfen-Tekfen) construction yard in Bibi-Heybat, Azerbaijan.2008 gas leak and blowout
On 17 September 2008, a gas leak was discovered in the area of the Central Azeri platform after blowout in a gas-injection well. The platform was shut down and the staff was evacuated. As the West Azeri Platform was being powered by a cable from the Central Azeri Platform, it was also shut down. BP, an operator of ACG, suspected a bad cement job caused the leaking gas. Production at the West Azeri Platform resumed on 9 October 2008 and at the Central Azeri Platform in December 2008.See also
*Azeri–Chirag–Gunashli
Azeri–Chirag–Gunashli (ACG, ) or Azeri–Chirag–Deepwater Gunashli is a complex of oil fields in the Caspian Sea, about off the coast of Azerbaijan. It consists of the Azeri oilfield, Azeri and Chirag oilfield, Chirag oil fields, and the Gu ...
*Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline
The Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline is a long crude oil pipeline from the Azeri–Chirag–Gunashli oil field in the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. It connects Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan and Ceyhan, a port on the south-easte ...
* Sangachal Terminal
*South Caucasus Pipeline
The South Caucasus Pipeline (also known as Baku–Tbilisi–Erzurum Pipeline, BTE pipeline, or Shah Deniz Pipeline) is a natural gas pipeline from the Shah Deniz gas field in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea to Turkey. It runs parallel ...
* Baku–Supsa Pipeline
*Baku–Novorossiysk pipeline
The Baku–Novorossiysk pipeline (also known as the Northern Route Export Pipeline and Northern Early Oil Pipeline) is an long oil pipeline, which runs from the Sangachal Terminal near Baku to the Novorossiysk terminal at the Black Sea coast in ...
* Nabucco pipeline
* Baku–Novo Filya gas pipeline
* Nakhchivan field
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Image showing Chirag within ACG fields
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