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Libya to build refinery near El Sharara

LIBYA THE Libyan government this week announced
that it had approved plans for the establish-
ment of an oil refinery in the area surrounding
the country’s largest oilfield, El Sharara, in the
south-west.
Announcement of the approval was given
by government spokesman Mohamed Hamuda
following the seventh regular cabinet meeting
on September 27. He said that the facility would
produce LPG while noting that the approval
mandates that the government’s royalties and
taxes paid by foreign companies as well as rev-
enues from concessions will be reinvested in
maintenance work. Production infrastructure at El Sharara oilfield (Photo: NOC)
He did not provide any further detail about
the planned refinery, but plans have previously Libya’s current refining slate comprises facili-
been announced for the construction of a 50,000 ties at Ras Lanuf (220,000 bpd), Zawiya (120,000
barrel per day (bpd) near El Sharara. bpd), Tobruk (20,000 bpd) and Sarir (10,000
In 2013, then Prime Minister Ali Zeidan said bpd), all of which are operated by the National
that the plant would be built in Awbari, around Oil Corp. (NOC).
55 km to the east of the oilfield, with a larger, Operations at each of these plants, as well as
300,000 bpd unit to be built in the northern the country’s oilfields and coastal export termi-
coastal city of Tobruk. The units were intended nals, have been disrupted at various points over
to cater to local fuel demand. the past decade. ™

Chariot signs MoU on green

hydrogen project in Mauritania

MAURITANIA UK-BASED Chariot said earlier this week that
it had signed a memorandum of understanding
(MoU) with Mauritania’s Ministry of Petroleum,
Mines and Energy on a proposed green hydro-
gen project.
In a statement, the company said that the
MoU provided for the parties to work together
on Project Nour, which envisions the use of up
to 10 GW in solar and wind generating capacity
to power electrolysis plants capable of turning
out large quantities of green hydrogen. One of
Chariot’s first contributions will be to charge
its in-house team, which has extensive experi-
ence in launching renewable energy schemes in
Africa, with assessing the wind and solar poten-
tial of the offshore and onshore areas set aside
for Project Nour, it noted. Project Nour will cover 14,400 square km (Image: Chariot)
The company will also prepare to conduct
studies on the economic, environmental and 14,400 square km for Project Nour.
social impact of the project, the statement The ministry will work with Chariot to
added. attract investors and form a “world-class consor-
It further indicated that the Ministry of tium” for this endeavour, which has the poten-
Petroleum, Mines and Energy had set aside tial to turn Mauritania into a major producer of
three tracts of land covering a total of about green hydrogen, it said.

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