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13-595: On 21 May 2006, the commissioning gas was pumped to the pipeline from the Sangachal Terminal . First deliveries through the pipeline commenced on 30 September 2006. Deliveries of gas from Shah Deniz gas field started on 15 December 2006. On 12 August 2008, the pipeline operator BP closed the pipeline for safety reasons because of the South Ossetia conflict . Gas supplies were resumed on 14 August 2008. The 42-inch (1,070 mm) diameter gas pipeline runs through

26-512: A central control room. The Sangachal Terminal Expansion Program (STEP) was started in November 2001. The construction included 15,000 cubic metre of concrete, 1,600 units of steel structures, 25,000 metres (82,000 ft) of pipe, 450,000 metres (1,480,000 ft) of cables. Apart from technological works, civil construction included living accommodations for 550 people, cafeteria, movie theater, soccer field, etc. US$ 1.2-2 billion

39-588: A part of the Shah Deniz Full Field Development (FFD), otherwise called the Shahdeniz-2 project, BP will expand the pipeline through capacity extension by putting two additional compressor stations in Georgia and Turkey. This will almost triple the current transportation capacity of the pipeline up to 20 bcm/year. This capacity increase would be able to accommodate an additional 16 bcm gas coming from

52-500: A second line of the pipeline. The first aim of the pipeline is to supply Turkey and Georgia . As a transit country, Georgia has rights to take 5% of the annual gas flow through the pipeline in lieu of a tariff and can purchase a further 0.5 billion cubic metres (18 billion cubic feet) of gas a year at a discounted price. It supplies Europe with Caspian natural gas through the Southern Gas Corridor pipelines, through

65-499: Is a Turkey -based holding company involved in engineering and construction, textile, food processing and other industrial sectors. With foundations laid in 1956 by three civil engineers – Feyyaz Berker, Nihat Gökyiğit, and Necati Akçağlılar. Today Tekfen Holding conducts its operations through thirty-eight companies and thirteen subsidiaries, it is active in five main areas: Engineering and Contracting, Chemical Industry, Agricultural Production, Services, Investment. Tekfen Holding

78-901: 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 the Black Sea coast. Sangachal Terminal was mentioned in the United States diplomatic cables leak as one of US "critical foreign dependencies". Tekfen Construction and Installation Co.Inc. Tekfen Holding A.S. (Tekfen Group)

91-654: The Trans Adriatic Pipeline and Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline . The pipeline is owned by the South Caucasus Pipeline Company, a consortium led by BP. As of 2022, the shareholders of the consortium are: The technical operator of the pipeline is BP and the commercial operator was Statoil. According to the PSA agreement, the commercial operatorship of the SCP was transferred to SOCAR starting on 1 January 2015. As

104-589: The SD-2 project. The SCPX follows the line of the earlier BTC and SCP pipelines across Azerbaijan. The project included an archaeological programme and supplemented the discoveries of the earlier two projects. Sangachal Terminal The Sangachal Terminal is an industrial complex consisting of a natural gas processing plant and oil production plant , located on the coast of the Caspian Sea 45 kilometres (28 mi) south of Baku , Azerbaijan . Construction of

117-595: The STEP have a capacity of 880 thousand barrels (140 × 10 ^  m ) each. The overall storage capacity at the terminal is 3 million barrels (480 × 10 ^  m ). As of November 2009, the terminal exports 941.4 thousand barrels per day (149.67 × 10 ^  m /d). The terminal is operated by a BP led consortium and is one of the largest oil and gas facilities in the world. Other partners are from AIOC , Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline , Shah Deniz and South Caucasus Pipeline projects. The terminal receives oil from

130-468: The Shah Deniz development, the capacity was increased up to 24 billion cubic metres (850 billion cubic feet) by adding additional looping and two new compressor stations, costing $ 3 billion. As the pipeline has the potential to be connected to Turkmen and Kazakh producers through the planned Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline , Azerbaijan has proposed expanding its capacity up to 60 billion cubic metres (2.1 trillion cubic feet) by building

143-623: The same corridor as the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline until Erzurum , where BTC turns south to the Mediterranean. It is 692 kilometres (430 mi) long, of which 442 kilometres (275 mi) is in Azerbaijan and 248 kilometres (154 mi) in Georgia . The initial capacity of the pipeline was 8.8 billion cubic metres (310 billion cubic feet) of gas per year. For the second stage of

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156-644: The terminal began in 1996 with the Early Oil Project , which foresaw the construction of pipelines to Supsa and Novorossiysk . Oil was first exported in October 1997. The terminal has since been expanded to include the ACG Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3 Oil Trains, BTC's main pumping station and the Shah Deniz gas plant. Facilities at the oil production plant include separators , coalescers , three new crude oil storage tanks , Export Pumps , gas turbine power generators and

169-584: Was spent for sub-projects realized within the STEP project. The terminal expansion contract was awarded to Tekfen-Azfen joint venture which employed nearly 4,000 employees for the project, 75% of which were Azerbaijani citizens. Due to finalization of the main part of the project, this number was reduced to 1,720 employees. Sangachal Terminal has a processing capacity of 1.2 million barrels per day (190 × 10 ^  m /d) and 1.25 billion cubic feet (35 × 10 ^  m ) of gas per day (bcfd). The three new crude oil storage tanks added during

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