Sangachal Terminal
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The Sangachal Terminal is large industrial complex consisting of a Natural gas processing Plant and Oil production plant. It is located on the coast of the Caspian Sea 45 kilometres (28 mi) south of Baku, Azerbaijan. The terminal is operated by a BP led consortium and is one of the largest oil and gas facilities in the world. Other partners of in the terminal are partners from AIOC, Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, Shah Deniz and South Caucasus Pipeline projects. The terminal receives oil from the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli field and natural gas from the Shah Deniz gas field. The oil is exported via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline to Turkey's Mediterranean coast and via the Baku-Supsa Pipeline and the Baku-Novorossiysk Pipeline to Black Sea coast. Total production is expected to reach more than 800,000 barrels per day (127,000 m³/d) in 2007, and around one million barrels a day by 2009.
Construction of the terminal began in 1996 with the Early Oil Project, which foreseen construction of pipelines to Supsa and Novorosyisk. First oil export was achieved in October 1997. The terminal has since been expanded to include the ACG Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3 Oil Trains and the Shah Deniz Gas Plant. Facilities at the Oil Production Plant include Separators, Coalescers, Crude Oil Storage Tanks, Export Pumps, Gas Turbine Power Generators and a Central Control Room. The three Crude Oil Storage Tanks have a storage capacity of nearly 880,000 barrels each.[1]
