Chirag Oil and Gas Field (Azerbaijan)

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Chirag Oil and Gas Field is an operating oil and gas field in Azerbaijan.

Along with Azeri Oil and Gas Field (Azerbaijan) and Guneshli Deepwater Oil and Gas Field (Azerbaijan), Chirag Oil and Gas Field is a part of the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli Oil and Gas Complex (Azerbaijan).

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Chirag Oil and Gas Field

¹Final Investment Decision
²If a country or region is known to not produce any hydrocarbons in an unconventional method, this production type is assumed to be conventional

Unit name	Status	Operator	Owner	Discovery year	FID1 year	Production start year	Production type2
Chirag	Operating	BP Exploration (Caspian Si) Limited	SOCAR (25.0%); BP Exploration (Caspian Si) Limited (30.37%); INPEX Southwest Caspian Sea, Ltd. (9.31%); other (25.7%); MOL Group (9.57%)	–	–	–	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Production from Chirag Oil and Gas Field

million bbl/y = million barrels of oil per year

Category	Fuel description	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
production	oil	20.44	million bbl/y	2023

Location

Table 3: Field-level location details for Chirag Oil and Gas Field

Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Unknown, Azerbaijan	Unknown	40.2197, 51.0977 (approximate)

The map below shows the approximate location of the field(s) within the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) Deepwater complex:

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Additional Data

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