SOCAR - BP PARTNERSHIP: ACG GAS FLARING REDUCTION PROJECT

Restoration of the environment is a key priority for the Government of Azerbaijan, together with all areas of social and economic life of the country. At present as well as in all other areas SOCAR and BP keep constantly the spotlight on environmental protection as a global issue and is cooperating with each other since 2008 in gas flaring reduction in frame of the World Bank's GGFR partnership. In 2011 with the purpose of gas flaring reduction In terms of this partnership Joint Working Group between SOCAR and BP was composed of and a number of actions in direction of flaring reduction have been implemented in ACG field by this Group. As an initial flaring value for baseline scenario of the project was taken an average value of 4% of associated gas flared in 2010-2011. In 2012 in the framework of the mentioned project, it was developed an improvement plan aimed to reduce flaring gas volume. As a result of the implementation of the plan, the volume of the flared gas was reduced from 4% (baseline scenario) to 2 %. In 2019 it was achieved 0.9%. This project resulted in gas flaring reduction, low-pressure gas gathering, and transportation through existing infrastructure, delivering gas to consumers, efficient use of the energy resources and improvement of consumers' access to energy. (C) 2020 "OilGasScientificResearchProject" Institute. All rights reserved.