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Gazprom targets Libyan
production increase
NORTH AFRICA RUSSIAN state gas firm Gazprom announced within these blocks had resulted in the discovery
this week that it had resumed oil production in of nine oilfields, which were brought to produc-
Libya following a nine-month hiatus. In an inter- tion. He added that the largest of these is the As
view in Gazprom’s in-house magazine, Sergey Sarah field, which is located in Block 91.
Tumanov, managing director of Gazprom EP Meanwhile, he said that the partners had
International, said that production had been “transferred the duties of the field development
suspended last year because of force majeure. operator in units 91 and 107 in the Sirte Basin”
However, with ports, terminals and pro- to the Sarir Oil Operations (SOO) JV established
duction facilities having gradually restarted with Libya’s National Petroleum Co. (NOC). This
operations, “our oil production has successfully was signed in October and followed around 30
resumed in our field in Libya”, he said. months of discussions to bring the JV in line with
Tumanov added that Gazprom and its major- Libya’s EPSA-IV framework. The fields covered
ity partner in the Wintershall Aktiengesellschaft by this arrangement are understood to be capa-
(WIAG) joint venture (JV), Wintershall Dea, ble of producing around 30,000 bpd.
aim to increase production from 43,000 barrels Elsewhere in North Africa, Tumanov added
per day to 62,000 bpd this year. Gazprom EP that Gazprom plans begin the development of
International holds a 49% share in the JV that projects at Algeria’s El Assel field and will carry
has been the operator of Libyan Blocks 91 and out feasibility studies for the development of the
107 since 1966. Rourd Saya and North Rourd Saya fields in the
Tumanov said that the partners’ activities same country.
US firm to provide services
for Egyptian flare gas project
NORTH AFRICA EGYPT’S Korra Energi, a specialised provider of facility’s modernisation project, which is
integrated electromechanical engineering solu- expected to increase capacity by 10-25%.
tions, has reached a deal worth $10mn with an According to the USTDA, the facility is oper-
unnamed US company to supply technology sys- ating at near capacity while “efficiency gains at
tems and equipment for the Amreya Petroleum the refinery would permit it to produce up to
Refining Co.’s (APRC) flare gas recovery project, two percent more volume of refined products
media sources reported. from the same volume of crude oil, an increase
The project is being implemented in co-op- in the amount of approximately 540,000 barrels
eration with the Egyptian Maintenance Co. (San of refined products annually”. This equates to
Masr) and is expected to be completed within around 1,500 bpd of additional capacity.
eleven months. A request for proposals (RFP) was made
According to company sources, about 80% available, which outlines the three key pillars
of project engineering design work has been of the modernisation project: overall efficiency,
completed. process configuration and automation.
The project’s production capacity is estimated The unnamed firm is expected to receive a
at about 100,000 barrels (bbl) of butane and $705,924 grant from the USTDA.
3,500 bbl of condensates annually, in addition to Established in 1997, Korra Energi is highly
1.4bn cubic feet (39.6mn cubic metres) per year specialised in providing integrated, customised,
of hydrogen to be used as an alternative fuel for innovative and value added engineering solu-
natural gas in furnaces. tions in Egypt and the MENA region. It boasts
Amreya refinery has a current production a team of 530 qualified and experienced engi-
capacity of 81,000 barrels per day (bpd) neers and technicians offering clients an array
The US Trade and Development Agency of services to fulfil their commercial and energy
(USTDA) is supporting the project for the requirements.
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