The UK supermajor announced the timeframe during public hearings in Baku ahead of a planned move into the project sanction and construction phase next year.
BP and its ACG partners have decided that they will initially install only one new platform in West Chirag, instead of two as earlier planned.
Originally the use of a drilling and production platform bridge-linked to a second facility for water injection and processing was considered, the same method as has been used at Central Azeri and deep-water Guneshli.
However,
