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Petrofac wins contract from NOC

subsidiary for work at Erawin field

LIBYA PETROFAC (UK) reported last week that it had forward to helping the National Oil Company
secured a contract worth more than $100mn for achieve its goals, develop key infrastructure
work at the Erawin oilfield in south-west Libya. safely and securely and increase production,”
In a statement, Petrofac said it had won the he commented. “Petrofac has been delivering
engineering, procurement, construction and complex projects, engineering services and
commissioning (EPCC) contract from Zallaf training local workforces in North Africa for
Libya Oil & Gas Exploration and Production over 20 years now. This latest award builds on
Co., a fully owned subsidiary of state-controlled our strength of engineering and construction
National Oil Corp. (NOC). Under the contract, capability and track record of effective delivery.”
the British firm will be responsible for the first Libya is currently producing around 1.2-
phase of work on early production facilities at 1.3mn barrels per day of crude oil. The North
the Erawin field. African country saw output levels fall from
“The engineering, procurement, construc- nearly 1mn bpd to less than 100,000 bpd in the
tion and commissioning (EPCC) scope of work first half of 2020, owing to intensified fighting
encompasses surface equipment, including between the country’s two largest political fac-
well pads and flowlines at the Erawin oilfield, tions, the Libyan National Army (LNG) and the
located in south-west Libya,” Petrofac stated. Government of National Accord (GNA). Yields
“It also includes a pipeline to transport crude began rising, however, after the LNA and GNA
oil around 100 km to the El Sharara oilfield and signed a permanent ceasefire in October 2020
a control room, substation and telecom system and proceeded to establish an interim govern-
located there.” ment. ™
The British company did not say when it
expected to begin work on the early production
facilities or how long the project would take. It
did note, though, that it was already involved
in several other initiatives in Libya’s upstream
and downstream sectors, including front-end
engineering and design (FEED) and conceptu-
alisation studies. It did not provide any further
details on those contracts but described them as
offering “wider opportunities” for engineering,
procurement and construction (EPC) services
in the future.
Elie Lahoud, Petrofac’s COO for engineering
and construction, said the EPCC contract would
give his company an opportunity to support
Libya’s effort to revive its hydrocarbon industry.
“Libya is positioning itself to become a major
oil and gas producer again, and we’re looking Petrofac will provide EPCC services for early production facilities (Image: Zallaf)

Eni finds oil and gas offshore Côte d’Ivoire

CÔTE D’IVOIRE ITALY’S Eni has discovered commercial hydro- have “discrete to good reservoir characteristics.”
carbon reserves at Baleine, a section of Block Preliminary estimates indicate that the field
CI-101 offshore Côte d’Ivoire. may hold around 1.5-2.0bn barrels of oil in place
Eni announced the find last week, saying it (OIP) and 1.8-2.4 trillion cubic feet (50.97-
had encountered shows of light crude oil meas- 67.96bn cubic metres) of gas in place (GIP), Eni
uring 40 degrees API and natural gas in the said. It went on to say that it had already suc-
Baleine-1x exploration well. It said the oil-bear- cessfully tested the lower Cenomanian/Albian
ing intervals lay within the Santonian and Cen- level of Baleine-1x for production and hoped to
omanian/Albian intervals, the latter of which fast-track development.

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