NOC NEWS

Libya’s state oil company, National Oil Corporation (NOC), said in a statement on Friday, the maintenance work for the main crude transmission line at Al-Waha Oil Company was completed and that the oil output is back to around one million barrels per day (bpd). Contributed to reducing the losses resulting from the halt in production, which was estimated to reach about one million barrels, and the production of the Waha Company was raised by 200 thousand barrels per day.

Petronas Carigali, the upstream subsidiary of Malaysian national oil company (NOC) Petronas, has made a gas discovery at the Hadrah-1 wildcat exploration well of Block SK411, located in the shallow waters of Balingian province about 170 kilometres northwest off the coast of Sarawak, Malaysia. The Hadrah-1 well was successfully drilled to a total depth of 1,850 metres in November 2021 and encountered gas within an approximately 200-metre thick sequence of high-quality sandstone and carbonate reservoirs, Petronas said today.

The National Oil Corporation (NOC) of Libya has announced that output at the Abu Attifel field has increased. The operator of Abu Attifel, Mellitah Oil and Gas is in charge of enhancement and maintenance work at the field and has increased the condensate production by 2,000 bpd to 9,500 bpd. The company informed that depending on the work, a further increase at other wells too is expected.

JV of PetroCanada and Libya’s National Oil Corporation, Harouge Oil Operations recently elevated production at the Amal oilfield to 25,000 bpd. According to sources, this increase led to the slight overall oil production hike of Libya. From past few weeks the almost 1 million bpd of production was held up. After the attack in June, both Amal and As-Sarah oilfields storage tanks were damaged.

Mellitah Oil & Gas, which is a joint venture of oil majors Eni and NOC, has commenced production from the first well of the offshore Bahr Essalam Phase 2 project. Libya’s largest offshore producing gas field will have an increased production potential of 400 MMscfd, post-completion of Phase 2 of the project. Total field production from Bahr Essalam will reach to 1,100 MMscfd by October of this year.

Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) enforced force majeure on loadings from Zueitina and Hariga ports yesterday, resulting in supply loss of 850,000 bpd. Oil prices climbed on the back of Libyan crisis with Brent crude oil futures trading at $77.87 per barrel, up 0.7%. WTI crude futures were 1% higher from their last close, at $74.71 a barrel.