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Eni extends deadline for bidding

on Structure A&E contract in Libya

LIBYA THE Italian oil and gas major Eni is giving combined weight of 85,000 tonnes. Together,
potential contractors more time to bid on the they will be able to handle around 760mn cubic
construction of two new fixed offshore plat- feet of gas, 42,000 barrels per day (bpd) of con-
forms and related facilities opposite the Mellitah densate and 5,000 bpd of crude oil. Structure A,
complex in western Libya through its partner- the smaller of the two, will host eight condensate
ship with National Oil Corp. (NOC). and gas production wells, while Structure E will
Mellitah Oil & Gas, the joint venture between receive well fluids from five subsea gas wells and
Eni and NOC, has been seeking bids for a pro- 18 dry tree oil and gas wells.
ject management services (PMS) contract for The PMS contract will take effect in the first
its Structures A&E project. Its pre-qualifica- quarter of 2023, when construction work on the
tion exercises were due to close on October 13, project is expected to start. It will remain in force
but the deadline has now been pushed back to until the new project comes on line in 2026. ™
November 12. In the meantime, the bidding
process for engineering, procurement and con-
struction (EPC) services on most of these facil-
ities is underway.
The Structures A&E project is designed to
allow Mellitah Oil & Gas to tap natural gas and
gas condensate resources and handle significant
volumes of carbon dioxide. It envisions the con-
struction of two new fixed platforms, as well as
the upgrade of an existing platform. It also calls
for the construction of subsea pipelines and an
onshore treatment facility that will handle gas
and condensate production from the offshore
platforms.
The new platforms, which will be known
as Structure A and Structure E, will have a Structure A will be linked to the Sabratha platform (Photo: Weatherford)

Zawiya refinery damaged in fighting

LIBYA LIBYA’S National Oil Corp. (NOC) said this filling plant.
week that its 120,000 barrel per day (bpd) Zaw- NOC chairman Mustafa Sanalla was quoted
iya refinery had been “severely damaged” during as saying: “Many of our facilities have been sab-
fighting west of Tripoli. otaged during the past years as a result of clashes,
In a statement on its website, the company but those damaged sites have been renovated
said: “Those involved held no regard for the lives and returned to work. It may take years to repair
of workers at the sites or to the damage that may [this new damage], and could cost the Libyan
have caused to the capabilities of the Libyan state state an exponential amount of money, which is
and the livelihoods of citizens there.” difficult to obtain.”
NOC added that the fighting had caused With the larger Ras Lanuf (220,000 bpd)
damage to eight of the oil-processing facility’s refinery currently not operational, Zawiya, 40
product storage tanks. Meanwhile, it added, km west of Tripoli, is the country’s largest active
damage to five storage tanks for base oils and refinery. NOC also operates facilities at Tobruk
chemical additives had “resulted in the leakage (20,000 bpd) and Sarir (10,000 bpd).
of large quantities from tank No. T9 for storing Zawiya processes crude produced from the
base oil.” El Sharara oilfield, which at 300,000 bpd is the
The electrical transformer that is the main country’s largest.
power supply for the facility’s oil mixing and Earlier this month, the Libyan government
filling units was also damaged and structural and the NOC announced that work had begun
damage was also caused in the oil mixing and to construct a new refinery near El Sharara. ™

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