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CENTRAL ASIA & SOUTH partial adjustments to the base level of oil be possible to make continuous diving
production from May 2022. descents by saturation.
CAUCASUS SOCAR management was informed
that the process of preparing the complex
SOCAR increases oil exports Kazakhstan’s KazMunayGas for marine tests is nearing completion.
Complex fire extinguishing systems,
via Baku-Novorossiysk and Russia’s Tatneft set up fire extinguishers, smoke respirators,
etc. equipped with. Carbon dioxide
pipeline by 75% joint venture for producing fire extinguishing systems have been
installed in saturation control and diving
SOCAR exported 922,700 tonnes of oil butadiene rubbers control containers. The complex will be
via the Baku-Novorossiysk oil pipeline commissioned after the completion of sea
in January-November, according to the Kazakhstan's state-owned oil and gas firm, tests.
operational summary of the FGBU Central KazMunayGas, announced on November At present, SOCAR's diving service has
Dispatching Office of the Fuel and Energy 30 that a joint venture has been set up 157 specialised divers, 25 of whom are
Complex. with Russia's Tatneft to produce butadiene aqua divers who perform deep diving by
According to the data, 84,760 tonnes rubbers. The launch is scheduled for 2026. saturation. Since 2011, a diving training
of Azerbaijani oil were exported via The planned annual capacity of the course has been organized at the SOCAR
this route in November. Compared to enterprise has been set at 180,000 tonnes training centre. During 2011-2021, a total of
January-November last year, the volume of butadiene and butadiene rubbers. 88 divers were involved in these courses and
of Azerbaijani oil exports through Baku- Project costs are estimated at around $1bn. successfully completed them.
Novorossiysk increased by 74.6%. At The parties are looking into options for
the end of 1M21, Transneft and SOCAR financing the project, which may include
signed an agreement for pumping more borrowed funds. Iran Chief of Staff says
than 1mn tonnes of oil through the "On November 30, 2021, Chairman of
Baku-Novorossiysk oil pipeline in 2021. the board of KazMunayGas Alik Aidarbayev trilateral gas deal with
According to the FGBU, SOCAR exported and Tatneft CEO Nail Maganov signed
613,290 tonnes of oil via the Baku- an agreement regarding the joint venture Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan to
Novorossiysk oil pipeline in 2020. Butadiene LLP, on the basis of which a
Azerbaijan has been transporting its oil project for the production of rubbers will be solve problems
via the Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline since implemented," the company said.
1997. The plant will be located within The recently agreed trilateral gas agreement
Atyrau Region’s SEZ National Industrial between Turkmenistan, Iran and Azerbaijan
Petrochemical Technoparc. will solve most of the problems with Iranian
Azerbaijan supports OPEC+ gas, Iranian President's Office Gholam
Hossein Ismaili told IRIB on December 5.
decision to increase oil SOCAR starts testing a new Ashgabat, on the sidelines of the Economic
Signed in the Turkmen capital,
production mobile diving complex Cooperation Organization (ECO) summit
on November 28, the swap deal boosts
Azerbaijan expressed support for the President of the State Oil Company of an existing agreement and allows the free
decision to increase daily oil production Azerbaijan (SOCAR) Rovnag Abdullayev movement of Turkmen gas westward. Under
by 400,000 barrels in January 2022, which and representatives of the company's the agreement, Iran will receive gas from
was adopted at the 23rd meeting of the management inspected the 200-meter Turkmenistan and deliver the same amount
ministers of the member countries of the mobile deepwater diving complex to Azerbaijan, Iranian Oil Minister Javad
Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting installed on a special frame on the crane Owji told Iranian state media.
Countries (OPEC) and non-member ship General Aliaga Shikhlinsky at the According to Ismaili, Azerbaijan has
countries, according to the Ministry of company's Zykh-2 site on December 3. reached an agreement on the purchase
Energy. According to the statement by the of gas from Turkmenistan and its swap
The new Declaration of Cooperation company, SOCAR officials also got through Iran, which will not receive any
provides for an increase in daily crude oil acquainted with the deck of the platform funds for the exchange of gas between
production in Azerbaijan in January 2022 for drilling 10 production wells in the Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan, but in return
by another 7,000 barrels - up to 661,000 Neft Dashlari field, as well as the work will provide gas supplies to its eastern
barrels, and the obligation to reduce is done in the workshop for cleaning metal provinces.
envisaged at the level of 57,000 barrels. structures and painting. The Mobile Deep "As part of the implementation of the
Previously, at the 19th meeting of Diving Complex, designed for all types of agreement in Iran, the problem of low gas
OPEC+ ministers in July, the parties agreed underwater technical and diving work, was pressure in the northern provinces in the
to increase daily crude oil production by built under the supervision of the American cold season will be eliminated," Ismaili
400,000 barrels per month from August to Bureau of Shipping (ABS) and will be added.
5.8mn barrels. It was decided to complete operated mainly at the Gunashli field. The He noted that one of the main directions
the reductions in barrels in September 200-meter Mobile Deep Diving Complex, of foreign policy of the current Iranian
2022 and to extend the Declaration of built by Unique Hydra, is designed for administration is building relations with
Cooperation until the end of 2022, with 14 divers. Through the complex, it will regional countries, strengthening diplomacy

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