Oil and condensate exports through Sangachal terminal in Azerbaijan fall 8.5%, gas flat in H1 - BP
BAKU. Aug 6 (Interfax) - Oil and gas condensate exports through the Sangachal terminal in Azerbaijan fell 8.5% year-on-year in H1 2026 to 97 million barrels, BP in Azerbaijan, the terminal's operator, said.
"Shipments of oil from the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli block, as well as condensate and natural gas from the Shah Deniz field, were carried out through the Sangachal terminal as usual in H1 2026. The terminal exported around 97 million barrels of oil and condensate, which were transported by the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline," the company said.
On average, 74 million cubic meters of Shah Deniz gas was exported from the terminal daily during H1 2026, level with a year previously.
The terminal currently has the capacity to handle 1.2 million barrels of crude oil and condensate and about 81 million cubic meters of Shah Deniz gas per day, while overall processing and export capacity for gas, including ACG associated gas, is around 100 million cubic meters per day.
Gas is predominantly exported through the South Caucasus Pipeline under Stage 1 and South Caucasus Expansion Pipeline under Stage 2 of the Shah Deniz project, and through SOCAR pipelines that connect the terminal to the Azerigas national gas distribution network.
The Sangachal terminal, located 55 kilometers to the south of Baku, is one of the most important facilities of the oil and gas industry in Azerbaijan. The terminal has an area of around 550 hectares, making it one of the largest oil and gas terminals in the world. The terminal was designed to receive, process, store, and export oil and gas from all existing offshore fields operated by BP in the Caspian basin, and it has the potential to be expanded.
The terminal includes oil and gas processing facilities, the first pumping station of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, a compressor station of the South Caucasus Pipeline and others.
Eight different pipelines deliver oil and gas to the terminal from offshore facilities, and eight pipelines from the terminal deliver Azerbaijani it to world markets via various routes. The terminal also takes in oil from sources in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.
