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BAKU, Sept 7 (Reuters) - British oil major BP expectsflat oil output in Azerbaijan in 2017 and will adhere to an oiloutput freeze, if the Azeri government takes such a decision,the company's regional manager said on Wednesday.
"We can't expect a rise in oil production next year, butexpect that it will remain stable, at the previous level,"Gordon Birrell, head of BP in Azerbaijan, told reporters.
"If the government of Azerbaijan takes a decision on oilfreeze, we will join this decision."
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries andnon-OPEC producers such as Russia are expected to discuss anoutput freeze at informal talks in Algeria on Sept. 26-28 todeal with a supply glut and weak prices.
BP operates three main oilfields in Azerbaijan -Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG). Oil output from these oilfields inthe first half of 2016 rose to 16 million tonnes (655,000barrels per day) from 641,000 bpd in the same period last year,BP-Azerbaijan said on Aug. 23.
Birrell said BP was in talks with the Azeri government onextending the production-sharing agreement at ACG beyond 2024,when the contract expires.
"Talks on the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli are continuing and weare active participants in these negotiations," he said.
He also said BP did not expect oil prices to recover in2016-17.
Azerbaijan gets three-quarters of its revenue from oilexports and the plunge in prices over the past two years has hitit hard.
"It's necessary to achieve an attraction of investments inthe conditions of low oil prices in 2016-2017," Birrell said. (Reporting by Nailia Bagirova; writing by Margarita Antidze;editing by Susan Thomas)